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...base a speaker's platform slowly revolved, surrounded by banks of flowers and five umbrella-shaded clusters of chairs for notables. For six days, Witness leaders expounded the faith over 192 loudspeakers, drenching every cranny of the stadium with inspirational sound. Most often at the microphone was Nathan Homer Knorr, 56, of Brooklyn, who is third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, official title of this 77-year-old made-in-America sect. With sweeping gestures and stabbing voice, he gave familiar Witness Biblicism some new amplification...
...Venetian master Carlo Crivelli to works, mostly portraits, by Hans Holbein the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Jean Honoré Fragonard, George Romney and Thomas Gainsborough. In money terms, the prize of the lot was one of the three Rembrandts: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Commissioned in 1653 by a Sicilian nobleman named Don Antonio Ruffo, it was one of the finest masterpieces in any private collection...
...during his regime. Efficient hospitals were built; good roads (with military check points every few miles) crisscrossed the island to carry a rich sugar and coffee harvest to market. Trujillo spent millions on self-glorifying publicity (hiring such U.S. agents as F.D.R.'s Attorney General Homer Cummings and F.D.R. Jr. himself), and won such influential champions as U.S. Democratic Senators James O. Eastland and Allen Ellender, who once said, "I wish there were a Trujillo in every country of South and Central America." Other apologists, ignoring Trujillo's terror, pointed to the Dominican Republic's sharply improved...
Meanwhile, it was announced that Homer J. Fonque '62, of Eliot House and Chicken Springs, Wyo., has been awarded the Hi Flung Hooey Memorial Prize for the best essay written during the year in the back room of a Chinese laundry. The prize is the income from two shares of Planters Peanuts common stock...
...born; Patmos, where the monastery exhibits the St. Mark Gospel written in silver on 33 leaves of purple vellum (and where the hard-scrabbling islanders, says a visitor, "live on packages from relatives in New Jersey"); wooded Samos, divided from Turkey by a spectacular channel; Chios, one of Homer's many birthplaces; Lesbos, where Sappho wrote her molten poems...