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...great doors of the nation's most famed Catholic edifice, St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, dripped with painted hammer-&-sickles last week. Two of the bright red symbols faced fine-feathered Fifth Avenue; two shone from doors on the side, and two from the walls. The sacristan found them there in the morning as he prepared to open the cathedral for early Mass, and called police. Same morning the same red symbols were splotched on the walls of two other Catholic churches in the city. (Several Manhattan synagogues had previously blossomed with swastikas...
...Book. Fannie's latest novel (Hallelujah; Harper; $2.50) is a rather abstruse triangle. Lily Browne, a widow, seemed "a startled-looking little girl, whose round hat with ribbons would be forever slipping backward on her head." Quiet, modest, gentle, nevertheless "in her underslip, the translucence of pale flesh shone on her arms and breast. An unexpected little quality of voluptuousness was revealed by Lily in undress. The thighs seemed wider and harp-shaped, the cups of the bust, tiny, separate and high." Oleander Watterson, Lily's maid, was an ex-convict, six feet tall, with a torchlight personality...
Through storms our sun of freedom-shone...
...city put on a festive air. The streets were filled with officers and men in smart, bemedaled uniforms. The ballet, opera, concerts, plays, movies drew big crowds. Subway stations shone with bright pink paint; fresh plaster concealed the scars on bombed buildings...
Draft news reared its confused head again last week. Testimony by Manpower Commission and Army bigwigs, asking Congress for next year's payrolls, raised a welter of headlines that left draft-age men still hopeful but still bewildered. But a handful of facts shone through...