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...final pre-election ritual is a series of speeches by Politburo members. Malenkov spoke from Moscow's marble Hall of Columns, which the Czars built as a playhouse and where the dead Lenin lay in state before he was embalmed and moved to his red granite tomb in Red Square. It was a long spiel (some 7,000 words in its English translation), full of stock praise for Soviet achievements. The keynote lines were aimed at Western ears...
Last week, the sound of hammering and building rang across the windswept slopes above New Zealand's Island Bay. Workmen were busy on a tomb for the woman who may some day be canonized as the first woman saint of the South Pacific-Suzanne Aubert de Laye, known to the church as Mother Marie Joseph Aubert...
...strange and as familiar as one's own face (or one's own city) seen in a recurring nightmare. The broken bits of mirror reflect bittersweet scenes of past summers, and brown, foggy glimpses of London; a hysterical woman in an ornate boudoir like a candlelit tomb; women in a pub talking of postwar problems ("Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart. / He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you / To get yourself some teeth...
...schoolchildren in northern Italy had contributed 500 lire (90?) "towards a national fund wherewith to purchase the Pieta." But so far the best offers were a paltry $90,000 from the Italian government, $400,000 from a Milanese industrialist who hoped to place the Pieta over Michelangelo's tomb in Florence's Church of Santa Croce, but only if he could get the statue taxfree...
...author's dutiful little odes to George VI, Franklin Roosevelt, Princess Elizabeth and young Prince Charles of Edinburgh. The 24 poems that make up the volume are echoes of a sturdier Masefield who can still spin a tale of a country prizefight, drop a tear for the rifled tomb of an old king and enjoy the sense of friendly ghosts in Hilcote Manor. They are only echoes of the Masefield of Reynard the Fox, Enslaved and Dauber, but if they are unlikely to win the poet new admirers, they will still serve to keep the old ones mindful...