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Died. Lee Oscar Lawrie, 85, German-born U.S. sculptor best known for his huge bronze Atlas in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, which supports only a skeletal globe because the Rockefellers feared that a solid sphere would darken the nearby window fronts; of cancer; in Easton, Md. Among his other...
The calling card gave the visitor's home address as Rolyat Castle, Accra, on West Africa's Gold Coast; his phone numbers, 337 and 406. He was Nii Kwabena Bonne III, Osu (chief) of Alata Manche, Oyoko-hene (headman) of Techeman, and general president of the Ga Football...
Along the roads of the Manche and Calvados, beside the hawthorne hedges, the farmers of Normandy stand with their families waving at every passing vehicle that throws dust into their faces. In the towns the Tricolor waves from nearly every building, the statues are decorated with American and British flags...
The newspaper supply ran even shorter of demand than usual. Clubs and study groups swamped the Moscow Lecture Bureau with requests for Second Front speakers. More than one comrade puzzled over the map of France in the British Embassy's publication, Britanski Soyusnik (British Ally). On it the English...
During the winter of 1922, that gentleman (whose weather reports, given in a mixture of bad English and rapid French, had to be heard to be believed; he had already sprung some astonishing surprises on us in the way of forecasts, one of the best of which was an announcement...