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...London court announced that George Bernard Shaw had left a gross estate worth $1,028,254.22. The playwright's will made small bequests to servants, friends and relatives; cleared the way at last to publishing his "intellectual love" letters to Mrs. Patrick Campbell; forbade any monument to him which contained "a cross or other instrument of torture or blood sacrifice"; directed that the bulk of the estate be used to promote his "simplified" alphabet...
South Boston is host to the annual affair because a monument will be dedicated there in honor of the day the British left Boston and the Irish took over...
...shifty trail. The Sergeant's story had thrown off everybody but the Berkeley Street sources, and they had tripped him up. As one police reporter explained it all when the first calls went through to Los Angeles: "No cop comes to Boston to look at the Bunker Hill monument...
...Good Monument. President Stoddard arrived at Urbana just as the tidal wave of ex-G.I.s began. He thought he knew their frame of mind. "They were like a lot of men coming to see a monument," he says. "They would have been glad to see any monument at all, but we decided that we would show them a good monument...
...sword, and the harmless Jews had been burnt in their synagogue . .. the bloody victors ... ascended the Hill of Calvary, amidst the loud anthems of the clergy; kissed the stone which had covered the Saviour of the world; and bedewed with tears of joy and penitence the monument of their redemption...