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...Letters section of TIME, Nov. 16, Mr. Dawson P. Adams claimed that John Reed, Harvard alumnus and one of the first American Communists, is buried in the Red Square at Moscow "in a grassy terrace on one side of Lenin's tomb." According to you, Mr. William C. Bullitt, first U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and now Ambassador to France, denied this and said that Reed's ashes were interred behind a plaque in the Kremlin wall...
When I was in the U.S.S.R. in 1932 I personally visited Reed's grave near Lenin's tomb and saw the headstone on it. I have carefully checked up to find out if there has been any change since that time. I can now state with certainty that there has not been; and that therefore Mr. Adams is right and Mr. Bullitt wrong...
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...citadel of priceless antiquities and such Old Masters as only millionaires can buy, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art was long regarded as a costly tomb in which no contemporary art could live. A fund of $150,000 was established by the late George Arnold Hearn, who subsequently added another $100,000 in memory of his son Arthur Hoppock, to change all this. In the past ten years 85 paintings by living U. S. artists have been bought by the Metropolitan. Last week a significant addition to this catalog was announced: an oil by William Gropper, oldtime cartoonist...
...Announcer (Actor Welles) told the radio audience: that the world has watched with wonder for three days this city wherein a newly dead woman has thrice come from her tomb. Emerging for the fourth time the woman speaks, warns the assembled crowd that "the city of masterless men will take a master." Soon a runner comes through the crowd with word that the Conqueror has landed on the nearby shore. The priests tell the people that their gods will protect them. A liberal statesman (Actor Meredith) counsels nonresistance. Before the people can make up their minds what...