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When at the war's end the President died, the son carved a seven-ton monument to his memory. In 1949, sculptor's chisel in hand, he emigrated to freedom...
Grand Larceny. In Pekin, Ill., somebody filched a 300-lb. tombstone from the Abel Vault & Monument...
...areas of debate, events had set up an insistent demand for decision, without delay. The area: Korea. Here, defeat and disaster were not future possibilities but present-day facts. Its cities gutted, its land scorched, its people uprooted, Korea had ceased to exist as a nation, had become a monument to the ravages of war. By the most optimistic speculation, U.N. forces would be able to hold only a corner of the shattered peninsula...
...German minds just a sentimental folk memory, like Santa Claus. Everybody is in favor of Santa Claus, but how many divisions can he raise? Item: Marshall Plan aid to France (as to other countries) created a magnificent situation of strength. The passivists stood back and admired it, a monument of American generosity, and made no effective political use of it. U.S. policy in France has failed and is still failing to get what the U.S. wants - a France that can and will defend itself. A weak-kneed French government is the obstacle. Weak-kneed U.S. policy actually supports that government...
...volume Prades Festival set (20 sides LP) makes record history. The performances were tape-recorded in a schoolhouse near the acoustically unsuitable Perpignan Cathedral, where the public performances were given. Although still not acoustically perfect (the piano sounds are particularly dull), the sum is a magnificent monument to Bach...