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...soaked, raffish, turbulent Marseille, the largest seaport and the second city of France, resembles in many ways the San Francisco of Barbary Coast days and the Chicago of Al Capone's era. Animosity between Gaullists and Communists reaches a shriller pitch in Marseille than anywhere else in France. In Marseille last week the new R.P.F. (Gaullist) mayor, Michel Carlini, 58, who had been mauled by a Red mob, lay on a couch, his head wrapped in bandages, and said...
Since 1919, when it broke away from the Communist-suppressed mother church in Moscow, the largest branch of North American Orthodoxy has sadly, steadfastly maintained its autonomy. Not that there has been a lack of interest on the part of Moscow's Patriarch Alexei and his new friends in the Kremlin. In 1945, the Patriarch sent an archbishop to the U.S. with concessions aimed to bring the exiles back into the fold; but the North American hierarchy refused. Four months ago, another church dignitary arrived from Moscow in a hopeful mood. Last week he was on his way home...
Dillon Field House will see the throngs and ring to the cheers of the largest rally of the gridiron season Thursday evening as the University prepares to see Dick Harlow's team off to Yale...
...nation's largest collection of recorded poetry, the poetry, the University, Vocarium, celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this week by bringing out several new records of T. S. Eliot '10 reading his own verse. Eliot started the collection with readings of "Gerontion" and "The Hollow...
...announced that his new company, London. Film Productions, Ltd., would turn out 13 pictures next year and spend $20 million in the process. (With the announcement of J. Arthur Rank that he would make 43 pictures worth $40 million next year, Britain could expect 80 new pictures, its largest production ever...