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...awesome Red Square. There this year, braving an annoying soap shortage, Russia staged its annual May Day revels, a display of rumbling tanks, massed troops, zooming warplanes, in praise of its successful "struggle for peace." Among the bigwigs who surrounded Man-of-Peace Stalin atop Lenin's tomb were new faces, the representatives of Bessarabia and Bukovina. Slogan of the day was "Strengthen the Red Army and Intelligence Service...
Issuing from their isolated Mt. Auburn Street tomb late last night, a dozen gentleman witsters invaded Shepard Hall, home of the Crimson Radio Network, and broadcast their own version of "a Hitler invasion of the Dean's Office...
...opened its bronze doors on Washington's Constitution Mall (TIME, March 24), many a critical connoisseur has looked Philanthropist Mellon's gigantic gift straight in the pink marble mouth. Architects have grumbled that the National Gallery is as massively old-fashioned as Grant's Tomb. Artists complained that the gallery ought to have made some provision for accepting contemporary art. Connoisseurs sniffed that its collection is sadly deficient in French...
Bishop Abe reported that before Japanese Christians agreed to the Government's insistence that they take part in Shrine Shinto ceremonies, the Government gave written assurance that the observance is purely patriotic (like uncovering at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier) and in no way religious. On the same grounds...
More About Nostradamus opens with the violation of the tomb of Astrologer Michel de Notredame, court physician to France's King Charles IX. All sequences of the short are narrated while a silent cast plays the scenes. They proceed to tell the story of Nostradamus' life. He was born in 1503 at Saint-Remy, Provence. A devout French Catholic of Jewish descent, he won distinction for his medical labors during France's plague. In 1555 he published his Centuries, written to foretell the future...