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...TOMB OF THOMAS JEFFERSON-Lawrence Lee-Scribner...
...this magnanimity that elevates The Tomb of Thomas Jefferson above the run of books by the many minor poets who can write Frosty or Horatian lyrics as well as Lee. Now & then, in his severely chaste magazine verse, a reader can hear a rumble that means business, as when he writes of the obelisk that marks Jefferson's grave...
...Harrison Williams, who bought her wardrobe at the openings, to a 30th Street shoestringer who stole his line by camera from Bergdorf's window, the whole world got the same word, simultaneously. Last week the U. S. dress business still half-hoped Paris would rise from its tomb to speak the authoritative word. But it also prepared...
Foremost sightseer was a little man in a light brown duster who slipped practically unnoticed into the Hotel des Invalides in Paris. Adolf Hitler gazed down at the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte, another "Little Corporal" whose star had soared to a zenith equaled only by his own before it sputtered and plunged...
...Cairo, Egypt, the mummy of 3,000-year-old King Tutankhamen, snugly wrapped in cotton wool, was gently removed to the basement of the Cairo Museum, to a secret bombproof tomb...