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...death, as in life, his colleagues honored Boris Shaposhnikov. Headed by Marshal Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov, Red marshals, generals and high Soviet officials shouldered his flag-draped, flower-draped coffin and carried it down the dimly lit Okhotny Road to a waiting car which took it to the crematorium...
LaGuardia, still curfused, still certain that a 12 o'clock curfew disrupted Manhattan's subway and bus systems, and that it would cause speakeasies to flower, made a nationwide radio speech to explain himself. He said that an hour of "tolerance" would make the curfew more easily enforced. Then he went on to plead that the city does not license bars which offer no entertainment, thus has no control over them. But nobody seemed to be listening...
...York bars and night clubs went right on shutting up at the stroke of midnight. At week's end administration officials, far from being indignant at the Little Flower, had begun to regard him benignly. The U.S. public, which had considered the curfew an unnecessary imposition, had got so mad at the mayor of sinful New York that they had begun to like...
Generals Forward. But now in Hungary Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin, the bull-like, flower-loving Ferdinand of the Red Army, sent the 60 generals of his Third Ukrainian Army group forward. By their side moved 27 generals of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army group and a Red Fleet Rear Admiral of the Danube Flotilla. Along a 90-mile front, from Lake Balaton to the Danube, 1,000,000 Russians were on the march. Others stormed over the Hron River north of the Danube...
...Contest. In St. Louis, a contest to guess how long it would take a 300-pound cake of ice to melt ended suddenly when the cake slid off a platfjorm in a flower-shop window, crashed through a plate-glass window, smashed to smithereens on the sidewalk...