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...such things are likely to go on only in the big, sinful cities like London. In the Cheshire market town of Macclesfield last week the heavy betting all seemed to be above board as Chrysanthemum Champ Jim Jackson preened his finest blossoms for the local flower show. Macclesfield's wise money was all on the old champ's posies to cop the prizes, and only a few flashy characters, who were strangers to the town, bothered to play the long shots opposing Jim. Then, a day or so before the show, someone broke into the Jackson hothouse...
...everyday matter for William Blake to converse with the ghost of a flea or Milton's apparition, and his works are clearly those of a man who saw "A world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower." The subject matter of most of the paintings in the present exhibit, the Book of Job and the Divine Comedy, completely suit the artist's mystical nature; only such a man could tear from the delicate medium of watercolors all the horror and ecstasy of Job's sufferings and Dante's revelation...
...center of the square was a flower-covered casket, in it the body of "John X," a G.I. fallen in defense of Belgium (he was not an unknown soldier; for this occasion one body was designated as John X). Joseph Cardinal van Roey, primate of Belgium, said a blessing for John X, then the bells of the ancient Notre Dame Cathedral tolled. Hundreds of Belgians fell in behind the procession as a caisson bore the casket to a pier on the Scheldt. There the casket of John X joined 5,599 others in the hold of the U.S. Army transport...
Died. Fiorello H. LaGuardia, 64, New York City's fiery "Little Flower"; of cancer; in The Bronx...
...gathered nicknames-the Little Flower, Butch, The Hat, the Little King. He posed for photographs in gas masks, baseball caps, catcher's masks, chef's caps and fireman's hats. During campaign speeches, he used his horn-rimmed spectacles as sword, scepter and backscratcher; he spat on imaginary apples, kicked imaginary footballs and screeched vulgarly at his enemies. He started a weekly radio program, on which he told housewives how to cook spaghetti, and, during the 1945 newspaper strike, read comics to their offspring...