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From the moment the general's motorcade moved off, the city's great towers-which stood clean and glowing under a bright blue sky-resounded to a flowing torrent of sound. At the tip of Manhattan it increased. Ships and tugs lent their whistles to the din. Then, lower Broadway -the financial district's Canyon of Heroes -began to resound to the clop of police horses, the crash of brass bands, as paraders moved out to lead MacArthur a mile; to City Hall. History's greatest fall of paper, ticker tape and torn telephone books...
...MacArthur lent no support to those who, with ex-President Hoover, would make the U.S. a Gibraltar, or to Taft's thesis, reiterated last week, that "We must not overcommit this country . . . There is a definite limit to what we can do." MacArthur said: "There are those who claim our strength is inadequate to protect on both fronts. I can think of no greater expression of defeatism...
They had never been Communists, they said. They had never knowingly been sponsors of Communist-front groups. Said Actress Holliday, who had already signed non-Communist statements for Columbia Pictures and NBC: "In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive...
...exhibits also opened recently at Busch-Reisinger. One, a collection of contemporary German art, includes four drawings by Paul Klee. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York lent the other exhibit, a display of wooden religious figures from the Gothic period...
...three years, Midwest music lovers who like to settle down to five hours of Richard Wagner's Parsifal in the closing days of Lent have been heading for Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University does not advertise the Palm Sunday Parsifal produced (in English) by its Opera Workshop, but those who have seen it have spread the word. Each year, more & more people, from Indianapolis, Louisville and Cincinnati, make the trek...