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Part of Western Europe's sober second thought was attributable to the on-the-spot explanations of U.S. policy by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who traveled 10,000 miles, through seven nations in ten days (see INTERNATIONAL). Dulles was also eminently successful in drawing signs of new unity out of Western Europe's bickering diversity. In capital after capital he managed to convey the urgent need for action, based not on U.S. threats but on an overriding identity of interests among all free nations...
There was solid good news on the polio front last week, and some not so solid. Across the U.S., many a hasty reader got the idea that polio could be licked in 1953. The sober facts...
...lockup. At the sight of some 30 smalltime crooks and drunks sleeping it off, the Christmas spirit struck. Marion offered to foot the fines for all concerned and empty the jail. The magistrate explained that such wholesale amnesty was impossible. However, he pointed to two regular customers who were sober enough to be released if their fines were paid. Marion paid off ($14.75 apiece), added a couple of dollars for pocket money, and threw in her autograph for one of the men, who said he would need it as proof among his friends that the story of his release...
...passionate painters, and possibly two with an important place in art history. The first was the sophisticated fantasist Paul Klee, who died in 1946. His art had all the delicacy and sparkle of a Swiss watch. The second great Swiss painter may well be Max Gubler, 54, a sober, square-faced man with straggly grey hair and intense grey eyes. His art is sunny and nourishing as Swiss cheese. Last week the Zurich Art Museum was staging a retrospective show of 136 Gubler canvases dating all the way back...
...robes in purple and scarlet, costs at least $3,000. Last week, on the heels of his appointment of 24 new cardinals (TIME, Dec. 8), Pope Pius XII ordered members of the Sacred College to scale down on the splendor. The world situation, said a papal decree, enjoins "a sober tenor of life upon all and a measured and austere one, particularly upon the clergy...