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...Holy City. Mountain-rimmed Salt Lake City (pop. 183,000) is no longer a fortress and a prison. Last week the town which Brigham Young laid out "foursquare with the compass" with wide streets and ten-acre blocks, was a center of Western commerce and trade, hub of three railroads, four airlines, four main highways. It is one of the cleanest and friendliest cities in the U.S., and one of the healthiest. The descendants of the lean and desperate Mormon pioneers have a well-fed, well-dressed, freshly scrubbed and glowing look. Mormon women walk with a high-bosomed...
...true that the U.S. has no alternative to spending more billions on Europe? It has just one. The U.S. could start dropping atomic bombs on Russia now, before the Russians can retaliate. It could, but there isn't one chance in ten million that it will. Sixteen centuries ago a great Christian (Saint Ambrose) laid it down that Christians have no right to go to war "unless driven to it." There are enough people in the U.S. who feel the way Ambrose felt about it, so that the Russians need not stay awake nights...
...Orange Blood. Only ten years ago, on the Day of the Battle of the Boyne, Sir Basil Brooke, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, had said some pretty harsh things about a people who make up 33% of his constituents. "Many of the audience employ Catholics," he said, "but I have not one about my place." The next July 12 Sir Basil recalled: "I recommended people not to employ Roman Catholics, who are 99% disloyal." (Meanwhile, down in Eire, Taoiseach Eamon de Valera was saying: "Ulster's rejection of an all-Ireland union is an outrage which Irishmen throughout...
Born in Manhattan, Loesser was a fast man with a rhyme when he was ten, but had to wait 17 years for his first successes. Among them: the lyrics for Hoagy Carmichael's Small Fry and Two Sleepy People. In Hollywood, he has made big money writing movie music...
Israel Epstein, a far eastern correspondent for ten years, will talk on "The Unfinished Revolution in China" at an open meeting sponsored by the John Reed Society Monday evening at 8 o'clock in Emerson...