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Isle of the Dead (RKO Radio) is a shuddery set of improvisations suggested by the famed, funereal painting of Swiss Romanticist Arnold Bocklin. Quarantined on a tomb-haunted island off the Grecian coast, after one of them dies of the plague, is a strange crew, including a Greek general (Boris Karloff), a sinister peasant woman (Helene Thimig), a genteel Englishman (Alan Napier), his sickly wife (Katherine Emery), their full-blown servant girl (Ellen Drew). For a while, with deliberate restraint, the movie is content to trail red herrings, tune up its infernal machinery and suggest perhaps a few too many...
After a night at the White House, the General began the long round of duties of a distinguished visitor. He went to Arlington National Cemetery, placed a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, received the 21-gun salute due a head of state (on his previous visit it had been 17 guns-for a general...
Harry S. Truman, as the nation's leader in victory, was invited to play the piano for posterity. Herbert Wells Fay, custodian of Lincoln's tomb, serving in his sideline capacity as head of a society to preserve the little ways of the great, suggested that the President make a recording, wrote to him: "What could be more fitting. . . . Never in the past has a U.S. Chief Executive possessed such a marked talent...
white-robed men sat at trude pine desks facing the tomb of their Father Founder. A few were lay brothers, most were priests, but all were monks, vowed to perpetual poverty, chastity and obedience. They were not Roman Catholics but Episcopalians, members of the Order of the Holy Cross, oldest of their church's five male religious orders.-They were met for their Annual Chapter meeting...
...Only three, by virtue of "long experience," are "pre-eminently qualified": sober, tomb-toned Raymond Swing; painstaking, calm-voiced Edward Murrow; ponderous, staccato-voiced Johannes Steel...