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Warming himself last week in the glow of his fireworks, Leonidoff was already hatching new spectacles to keep the theater's 6,200 seats filled. One of his pet projects: a cavalcade of the building of the West, opening with a raging forest fire and closing with the San Francisco skyline rising gold-plated out of the horizon...
Whittaker Chambers and Algeu Hiss had been silhouetted dimly for ten months against smoky fires which smoldered at the foundations of state. The baleful glow did not light them sharply; as they swayed and grappled it was only possible to tell that they were locked in a strange and merciless combat and that one, or both, would inevitably suffer a total and deathlike disgrace...
Communist armies exploded into action again along the Shanghai front, which had lain quiet for 15 uneasy days. From the top floor of Broadway Mansions, Shanghai's tallest apartment building, tenants saw sharp flashes of cannon fire across the Whangpoo River, and the glow of burning villages farther to the north. At week's end, Red General Chen Yi's forces, driving relentlessly from the west and southwest, were within eight miles of the city. Simultaneously, two Red armies from the northwest knifed in toward Woosung Fort at the confluence of the Whangpoo and Yangtze rivers...
...ruddy glow of November's victory, Democratic Chairman J. Howard McGrath waxed canonical over the worldly issue of spoils. The President, said he, would forgive "venial sins," e.g., little political lapses, and he would be hell on mortal sinners, e.g., Dixiecrats. The McGrath tract seemed quite clear: jobs for the faithful, the outer darkness for backsliders...
...picked Pablo Picasso's monumental oil, The Pipes of Pan, as a contemporary example of the Greek glorification of the body. Picasso's heavy-limbed athletes had the same solidity as sculpture, and for all their blank faces and lumpish hands & feet they seemed to glow with life and health. It was a safe bet that artists a century from now would still be learning from the Greeks...