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...unifying the diverse Allied commands in Europe, many an armchair strategist in the U.S. cried out for an Eisenhower of the Pacific. They had some reason: the Pacific command, the lines of which were defined none too sharply by Franklin Roosevelt shortly be fore he died, is complicated...
...John's delay-other than financial-involves a gigantic architectural indecision and eventual about-face. In 1911, after the choir and sanctuary had been built in heavy Romanesque, a new architect (the late Ralph Adams Cram) decided to go Gothic. Today St. John's is Gothic fore & aft, with a great chunk of Romanesque amidships. The odd combination of Gothic's aspiring points and lacy frets with Romanesque's rounded arches is still bedeviling builders...
...power, agreement seemed easy in the preliminary stage of words (i.e., the Crimea declaration on Poland; some of the charter amendments approved last week). But when they got down to cases on such issues, the deep differences between the Soviet Union and its principal allies came nakedly to the fore, and agreement was difficult if not impossible...
Thus the story ran around the earth. Palestinians prayed each in his separate fashion, in church, synagogue and mosque," for the man who had gone. Indians saw "a bleak sad future" - they voiced their fore boding to passing G.I.s: "Sahib very bad news. Your President is dead ... a hard working man for war, a friend of poor...
...story: Walter Abel, a little bewildered by his fiancee Susan, assembles her former husband (George Brent) and a couple of other major influences on her career (Don de Fore and Dennis O'Keefe), in order to learn what is in store for him. In three long flashbacks they volubly oblige him, detailing her progress from innocent New England country girl to actress to burlesqued bluestocking to her present daftly sophisticated self...