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...Scroll & Key). Even that fictional stalwart. Dink Stover (Bones), had trembled at the thought of Tap Day: "The morning was interminable, a horror. They did not even joke about the approaching ordeal. No one was so sure of election but that the possible rejection of some chum cast its gloom over...
...liked to go to church and liked to go hunting. When he was drafted eight months ago, he says, he could light a match at 25 yards with his .22 rifle. Arriving in Korea in January, he wrote home to his mother for a Bible. At night, in the gloom of his bunker, 19-year-old Private Stanley read his Bible by the light of a Coleman lantern; during the day he cleaned the Browning automatic rifle the Army had issued to him. Last week, in his first contact with the enemy, the six-foot Negro put both his religion...
...grand old men of modern school-of-Paris art, generally ranked among the top half-dozen contemporary French painters; of a heart attack; in the Provençal village of Forcalquier. Partially crippled by arthritis for the past 15 years, Dufy never let pain or gloom color his work. He was famed chiefly for lighthearted, bright-hued racing and yachting scenes...
...Sunk in Gloom. The French party, once the most threatening in the West, has become disorganized during the long absence of Maurice Thorez (who was so ill in Moscow last week that he could not appear for Stalin's funeral), and divided over the recent purges of two of its stalwarts, André Marty and Charles Tillon. In Paris, Acting Boss Jacques Duclos put on a black hat and black overcoat when he got the word of Stalin's death, and led France's straggly delegation to Moscow for the funeral. Somehow, as he climbed into...
...have hit the nail on the correct spot. The thing that hurts, and the thing that has wrapped me in this mantle of gloom is the reason...