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Thanks to the wowsers, Sunday in an Australian town, for soldiers who need recreation, is an exercise in breathing the dank air of a tomb. There are no movie shows, because places where people pay an admission fee are classed as "disorderly houses." There are no dances, few open restaurants where a man can buy himself and girl a cup of coffee, nothing but churches and sedate fun at home. Even window shopping is out. The windows are all sandbagged...
...Soviet Union, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (TIME, March 2), has a venerable name. Saints Cosmas and Damien are the patron saints of the pharmaceutical [and medical] world. . . . Fact and fancy credit them with many medical miracles. They were victims of the Diocletian persecutions in the 4th Century, and their tomb in Cyrus, Syria, has been venerated as a shrine for centuries...
There was to be no holiday this year. Lenin would hardly have wanted his death to interfere with the war against Russia's enemies. But in their heavy winter boots the citizens of Moscow trudged across Red Square, past Lenin's tomb. Whether or not Lenin's remains were still in it, the tomb was still a symbol. Other citizens, remembering other days, smiled at a large painting of Napoleon's 1812 retreat hung in a subway station...
...speaker was finished, and the last wreath had been placed on the tomb of the newer Unknown Soldier. The bugler was sounding taps as Vag, shivering a bit from the damp which had penetrated his light reversible, left the enlarged Arlington National Cemetery. Outside it all seemed so unreal--Vag wondered if he had had a vision of the future or a nightmare of the past...
...Beloved Moscow!" said an officer of a citizens' battalion over the radio. "We think of the Red Square, and Lenin too. Never shall we permit the dirty Fascist hordes to touch the tomb." Spokesman Solomon A. Lozovsky curtly answered a correspondent's query as to the moving...