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...anathema in many a U. S. parish where Lutheranism is austere and puritanical. The liturgists argue that what they want is nothing new. Martin Luther called a mass a mass. He favored vestments, tapers and incense; genuflected and even approved of private confession. And Luther, who wrote "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" and liked Gregorian chants, would never have approved of the organist who chased his pastor, wobbled his tremolo and abused his chimes...
Holding most of Cuba's guns, little Generalissimo Fulgencio Batista last week went President-making. So unimpressed was this quarter white, quarter black, quarter Chinese, quarter Indian by the politicos' choice early last week of Carlos Hevia y Reyes Gavilan that he cut off Cabana Fortress' 21-gun salute to the New President at the count of nine. Gently he began to move his troops into Havana, to police stations, doorways, roofs. His chief opponent, ex-President Grau's ubiquitous Secretary of War, Navy and Interior Antonio Guiteras, a onetime pharmacist who had somehow got Cuba...
...their heads together. Threatened with a general strike, they gave scant heed to the "revolutionary program" of last September. The big thing now was U. S. recognition. They were still bickering over Batista's candidate when they were jolted out of their chairs by the sound of Cabana Fortress guns. Boom-Boom-Boom -21 times...
...producers) is a heartfelt, heavily underscored polemic on the sufferings of a sensitive child whose parents flunk in matrimony.* Most effective of its nine scenes is the second, in which Bobby Phillips (Frank M. Thomas Jr.) and his playmates assemble in a debris-littered vacant lot to build a fortress. The precise meaning of the word bastard is the subject of academic discussion which turns personal when Bobby is truculently catechized as to whether his father is the salesman who occasionally comes home to his mother, or the stranger she has been seen kissing in a parked automobile. Bobby tights...
Germany. Spurred by Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, the German Press discovered that President Roosevelt and Chancellor Hitler are advancing together against the crumbling fortress of Democracy...