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Across the room is a curious Frisian grandfather clock of the 17th century, and the Elizabethan mantlepiece next to it has not been dusted since 1583. The fireback is decorated with "Susannah and the Elders" in wrought iron, while tapestries and a Gothic cabinet effectively hide the crumbling north wall...
...second day the routine was established. Mornings, the three principals conferred with their respective staffs. After lunch (often a ceremonial affair, with official Russian hosts) they completed their plans for the afternoon session, then drove to the handsome, Gothic, somewhat overpowering Spiridonovka House, where all the talks are being held.* The three ministers conferred through interpreters, called in the various experts of the staffs as they needed them. To the first full-length session Hull and Eden took their military advisers, respectively Major General John R. Deane and Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, thereby leading correspondents to the solemn...
...TALES-Isak Dinesen-Random House ($2.50). Eleven simple stories about weird people (Sample: "Of a girl, perverse and perhaps a little mad, who ran after the gypsies and found relief in witnessing a decapitation"), with settings in Scandinavia, Persia, Belgium, Paris, etc. Admirers of Author Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales (TIME, April 9, 1934) will snatch at this; others may find her highly feminine, stylized prose a little overrich. One of the Book-of-the-Month Club's dual selections for June...
...York's Bishop William Manning received a $500 check from a group of churchwomen, banked it until war's end. Then it will help to pay for his most famed work-in-progress: Manhattan's vast Gothic Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...Pittsburgh's grimy Gothic Cathedral of Learning went Dr. Gilbert D. McCann last week, there to bait his traps for thunderbolts and thus officially open the 1943 lightning season. Other claptraps (more than 200) were set out along power lines, on forest watchtowers, atop radio masts and the tall stacks of copper smelters-wherever lightning is likely to strike twice...