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...Lux et Veritas. In State College, Pa., after Dean of Admissions William S. Hoffman retired from his job at Pennsylvania State College, he let a secret out: he was the student who dumped that bucket of water on faculty members 40 years...
...resolved Holland's overseas mercantile problem-how to restore trade with Indonesia and her once lucrative transoceanic shipping in general. But ECA's pressure had helped bring about one solid achievement long dreamed by the Dutch: economic union with their Benelux neighbors, the Belgians and Lux-embourgers...
...Lux Theater (Mon. 9 pm., CBS). Edmund Gwenn as Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street...
...Secretary of the Comintern during the chairmanships of Zinoviev and Bukharin. Hertta's heart interest was stocky, heavy-jowled Tuure Lehen, an ardent young Communist who had won fame as the author of texts on mob fighting and strike tactics. In stolen moments together at Moscow's Lux Hotel, Tuure's whispered tales of the beauties of mob violence made Hertta's head spin. In 1926 the pair were wed. Eight years later Hertta was sent to her native Finland to practice Tuure's preaching and was promptly clapped in jail...
...Fischer tends to deify Lenin, heaping all the sins of Communism on Stalin. A typical Fischer anecdote: in 1925 Stalin had summoned her to Moscow. When she arrived her passport was taken away and for ten months she was a virtual prisoner in Moscow's flea-bitten Hotel Lux. Stalin left Moscow on vacation and Zinoviev plotted to get her safely back to Germany...