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Jane Anderson, "the world's greatest woman orator in the fight against communism," who as a war correspondent in Spain for the New York American narrowly escaped death in front of a Loyalist firing squad only to be thrown in prison for six weeks, will speak in Emerson D at 7:30 o'clock tonight...
...Pacific were reaching the end of their patience with Japanese aggression in the Far East, to hint gravely that in the event of a general war in the Pacific the navies of Britain and the U. S. will be able to make use of Singapore, now the greatest naval base, greatest fortress in the East...
...Christian sufferings Apollonia was sainted. Still popular, she gives her name today to many a Catholic in eastern Europe, such as Polish Actress Pola Negri, born Apollonia Chalupec. But her greatest popularity springs from the fact that she has become a patron saint of dentists.* Last week, to show that it had not waned, no less than 500 French dentists made a pilgrimage on St. Apollonia's feast day to one of her chief shrines, at La Gaude near Nice. In the parish church which contains her statue the dentists attended mass, then made merry in the village...
...Fair before it, has managed to ignore Architect Wright. Last week in the New Yorker Critic Lewis Mumford spoke out on this point in a review of Weight's latest work. "These . . . houses show Frank Lloyd Wright at the top of his powers, undoubtedly the world's greatest living architect, a man who can dance circles around any of his contemporaries," said Mr. Mumford. "Architecturally . . . the chief claim of the World's Fair on the attention of posterity will be the preposterous fact that Wright was not called in to design...
...greatest architect of the 20th Century whose genius was hailed in foreign countries long before it was recognized in the United States, the forerunner of the international style, the designer of the Tokyo Hotel, of homes, offices and industrial plants scattered throughout the country is (1 Louis Sullivan, 2 Frank Lloyd Wright, 3 Richard J. Neutra, 4 Grant Wood, 5 Georges Enesco...