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...with Eastern Europe has plummeted to about half what it was in 1938. Franco-Russian trade talks are slated for next week, and Bernard de Plas, a right-wing businessman who believes in "trade regardless of political regimes," is flying to Peking, via Moscow, as the guest of Nan Han-chen, president of the People's Bank of Red China...
...baptize him three months before, tried to persuade him to take Communion. "I would only be too happy to do so," scribbled U. S. Grant, "if I felt myself fully worthy. I have a feeling in regard to taking the sacriment [sic] that no worse sin can be committed ;han to take it unworthily. I would prefer therefor not to take it, but to have the funeral service performed when I am gone." After reading this note, the bishop said there was no hurry: the general would probably live for quite a spell yet. In reply, Grant sadly shook...
...heritage in any way but reproduction," he says. "Egypt was a book to them; so was Europe." The museum began collecting samples from the great periods in history: Egyptian art back to 3,000 B.C., a richly-tooled gold funeral wreath from ancient Greece, a Chinese urn from the Han dynasty, a fine green glaze beaker from the 15th century Persia. In painting, Chillman stuck to such safe and sure old masters as Fra Angelico Bellini, Rembrandt, such French impressionists as Cézanne and Renoir, and a gallery of popular Americans from John Singer Sargent to Cowboy Artists Frederic...
Embittered by the way the war had gone and saddened by the recent deaths of both his wife and son, General von Rundstedt had lately been living at Han-over-Klefeld in a modest third-floor flat over a shoeshop. He never wrote his memoirs. Last week, in a quiet and gentlemanly way, he died...
...turned out to see him. Christmas afternoon he put aside his helmet and flak vest, flew back to Tokyo. Both Evangelist Graham and Cardinal Spellman left a great many calmer, happier Christians behind them in Korea. Graham also left a dog-tired Korean interpreter, the Rev. Han Kyung Chik, a Seoul pastor. Said Presbyterian Han, after two weeks of high-pressure translating for Billy: "Dr. Graham has such a lion's voice, so much power, and he speaks so rapidly, I can't let my mind wander a minute...