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...story takes place in an underground tomb where a rather idealistic young lady (Jan Farrand) and her maid (Nancy Marchand) have decided to starve themselves into Hell in order to keep Miss Farrand's late husband company. A handsome young corporal drops in, falls in love with Miss Farrand, and distracts both ladies back to a more normal interest in life. Miss Marchand is particularly engaging as the brazen ladies' maid whose carthy comments create an amusing foil to the high-flown sentiments of the two lovers...
...smell of old wars was never far away from peaceful Konrad Adenauer as, Baedeker in hand, he took the trail to the sights of London and Oxford.* In Westminster Abbey, Adenauer paused uneasily beside the tomb of Britain's Unknown Soldier, said nothing. At the British Museum he watched workmen repairing the great dome. "A German bomb hit us," explained a museum official. "We're still cleaning up." As Adenauer arrived at No. 10 Downing Street, left-wing pickets shouted: "Heil Hitler!" "No arms for Germans...
Died. Marion Benda, 45, Ziegfeld Follies girl of the '20s, long rumored to be the mysterious Woman in Black who made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Screen Lover Rudolph Valentino each year on the anniversary of his death; by her own hand (sleeping pills, on her seventh attempt); in Hollywood. She claimed to have gone dancing with Valentino the night he was fatally stricken with an attack of peritonitis and gastric ulcers, afterwards made the headlines by announcing that they had been married and were the parents of a baby girl. Later she did marry 1) a Hollywood...
Washington gave him the No. 1 treatment-honor guard, military band, howitzer salute, receptions, dinners. At the White House he talked with President Harry Truman. He prayed at George Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon, went to Mass on Sunday. At the Pentagon he lunched with General of the Army George Marshall and his successor as Defense Secretary, Robert Lovett. At the State Department, he briefed Dean Acheson on Indo-China. "Very interesting . . . I got a clear picture for the first time," said the Secretary. "We shall do all that is possible...
...University, which is entrusted through McKay's will with the care of the tomb, is not taking any chances. Its maintenance men went to Pittsfield earlier this month to place a temporary board over the window, and plan to return soon to put in the transparent plastic covering...