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...Whose father, the late Jacob Adler, was a pillar of the Yiddish theater...
Moses, his first Old Testament novel, should be another bestseller, even though it contains little to scandalize anybody. Novelist Asch does try to rationalize a few of the Pentateuch stories, e.g., the "pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night" becomes a pall of light-refracting dust raised by the tramping Israelites and their cattle. Yet nothing can dim the essential grandeur of Moses and his mission...
...announced a list of the most amiable Parisians, as chosen in a poll. Among the winners: a cab driver, a policeman, a salesgirl, a dress model and smiling President Vincent Auriol himself. Perhaps the most notable of all the prizewinners was vast, maternal Mme. Denise Muairon, 52, an imposing pillar of Parisian lovability. Mme. Muairon, the concierge at Numero 19 Rue Daru, belongs to a profession that is usually rated about as amiable as a barbed-wire fence. Unlike her colleagues, who snarl at one and all indiscriminately, Madame has smiled benignly from her glass-enclosed niche...
Early one May morning, a roaring pillar of flame hurtled up over Eniwetok Atoll. In brief and terrible seconds the fireball blossomed into the mushrooming cloud that hovers like some sinister symbol over atomic explosions. Afterwards, as soon as things were reasonably safe, scientists, construction crews and military technicians from Joint Task Force Three swarmed ashore at the "target" island. They measured what was left to measure, studied the effects of the blast that had been seen as far as Kwajalein, 375 miles away, made ready to conduct still more tests. Then, after two years of work and two months...
...invasion bombing of nearby Seine docks, bridges and warehouses by waves of Allied aircraft tore away rows of buttresses, flattened the whole southern side of the nave. Incendiaries set the tower afire and sent the bells crashing 253 feet to the floor. One huge stone column known as Pillar 58, which supports 2,000 tons of walls and roof, was blasted and bent. When the bombers were through with Rouen, the cathedral was a hollow, burnt-out shell in danger of collapsing completely...