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Britain and her Empire, her people and her King have changed. Her dangers, as Winston Churchill said last week, are no longer mortal. The great impending event of 1944 is not invasion of Britain, but the invasion of Hitler's Europe. The looming question for Britons and their king is not whether they can avert disaster, but how they will fare in victory-and with whom they are going to share it. The question of Empire is not which Dominions shall receive and sustain the British Fleet (it never was a question in Britain), but just how closely...
When founding father Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (N. Lenin) died 20 years ago last week, Russia's foremost biochemist and anatomist were ordered to preserve the frail little man's mortal remains for posterity. A black and red marble pyramid was erected on Moscow's Red Square. Inside the embalmed body was laid out, under glass, in a quiet vault where the people could file silently by. War closed the tomb's door, but last week Moscow scientists made their annual report: "Excellent color in the skin, firmness and elasticity of connective tissues, flexibility of the joints...
...Holmes novels, Elsie Venner, The Guardian Angel and A Mortal Antipathy, seem morbid, sententious, very unlike his other writings. All three deal with characters on the borderline of insanity. Contemporary critics called them "medicated novels." This description is favorably endorsed by Clarence P. Oberndorf of Columbia University, past president of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In The Psychiatric Novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Columbia University Press; $3) he finds clear evidence that Holmes was 100 years ahead of his time...
Terming the Panay bombing "a shocking blunder," Ambassador Saito said that there is "no compensation which mortal man can make that is adequate for the families bereft...
...Then they come . . . jumping with cries into our trenches. . . . Every night a fight rages before Kerch. Attempts are always thrown back by the greater ability of German soldiers. But every night there is mortal fear in the trenches until the sun rises...