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...trooped into the basement to splotch paint on paper at a very popular free Art Center. During the recent war, army chaplains trained upstairs. Now, the Lowell Institute's WGBH broadcasts from the basement and the top floor holds the offices of the Public Speaking Department. The great Baroque organ, whose pipes rise from the mezzanine like a cluster of stalagmites, is usually reserved for E. Power Biggs' Sunday morning broadcasts. However, others play on it during the week if they can convince the attendant that the organ for them is a major interest...
Even the most delicate religious effects are handled in this manner. The Virgin Mary comes to earth accompanied by great crashed of thunder, zaps of lightning, blasts of organ music, and finally springs up like the Cheshire cat. When it comes time for the actual miracle to take place, Warner's has the sky change colors as rapidly as a drugstore juke box, and the sun comes diving down toward the earth with appropriate sound effects. This "improvement" only makes the improbable seem impossible...
Upstairs, miles of corridors, reception rooms, drawing rooms, anterooms, bedrooms, bathrooms were lined with paintings and stuffed with bric-a-brac. The music room, as big as a cathedral, housed all kinds of instruments, including an antediluvian phonograph and an organ. All the instruments were automatic. In the gymnasium were all sorts of exercise equipment, including an ingenious machine, made in Battle Creek, Mich., which was supposed (but signally failed) to keep the royal rump from becoming imperial. Farouk's study was a pornographer's paradise, hung with garish paintings and crammed with statuettes of nudes in attitudes...
Socialist Labor. For President, Eric Hass, editor of the party organ, The Weekly People; for Vice President, Stephen Emery, a New York subway dispatcher. Hass, who dismisses British Laborites as "phony Socialists," is plumping for establishment of a "Socialist Industrial Republic" with a legislature based on industrial rather than geographic divisions...
What Is It? Theoretically, the Congress is the "supreme organ of the party," reviews the work of the party leaders and sets policy. Until the late '20s, it actually had some power. But afterwards it has been only a blank check for Stalin and the Politburo. Calling of a Party Congress frequently-but not necessarily-means that Stalin wants to prepare the party for a shift in policy. The Congress is supposed to meet at least once every three years, but Stalin simply has not bothered to call one since...