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...this week, as he unpacked a new shipment of 22,000 tiles for the church, scowling at each damaged tile through his steel-rimmed glasses, he had a more immediate project in mind. For designing the church (without fee), French Architect Robert Erell, a Protestant, was awarded the Order of St. Sylvester by the Pope. This, according to Bureth, entitles Erell by ancient 'custom to enter St. Anne's Church on horseback. Showman Bureth is arranging to have the architect ride into church astride a horse just before the Canoemen's Mass on Whitsunday...
...adults, 55 lbs. for their new privileged elite, the Communist party workers. "Rebels eat last" is the rule in the sections where Roman Catholics resist the regime. The Hanoi press extols the "selfless help" of Red China, but Red China (itself in economic trouble) has only sent Ho one shipment of 10,000 tons of rice. "We may have to accept as many as 2,000,000 deaths this year from starvation," a senior Communist admitted...
Shrouded in all the mystery of an atomic shipment, three huge packing cases arrived last week in Philadelphia. In them were seven tons of bronze sculpture by Britain's famed U.S.-born sculptor, Sir Jacob Epstein. They had been cast in secrecy in a London foundry so that Philadelphians would get first look at the newest adornment to their city: a group of five bronze figures, representing "Social Consciousness," to stand as a part of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park...
...Good Die Young (Romulus; United Artists) is just a little ricochet romance, U.S. style. Three men in a pub (Richard Basehart, John Ireland, Stanley Baker), all decent fellows but down on their luck, meet a fourth (Laurence Harvey), who persuades them to steal a shipment of old bank notes from a mail truck. When the job is done, the villain slaughters all three of his accomplices, but in the last reel the meat wagon comes around for him, too. The playing is brisk, but the story takes too long to untangle itself. The good die somewhat...
...countrymen." It got off to a glowing start when Philadelphia's Nicholas Biddle, then secretary to the U.S. Minister to France, flattered Napoleon into sending plaster casts of the classic statues his armies had just looted from Italy. From other donors came more contributions, including one shipment of paintings from Europe which was captured by the British in the War of 1812, released only after British courts held them not to be rightful prizes...