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...General breakfasting at the Executive Mansion at Springfield, Ill. He paid a courtesy call on Catholic Bishop Griffin, toured the post office, lunched with and addressed the Mid-Day Club, made a speech at the Fair Grounds, visited Lincoln's home, placed a wreath on Lincoln's tomb, drove to New Salem, inspected all 13 of the reconstructed log cabins of the town of which Lincoln was postmaster. That night in Springfield he dined with practically every important Democrat in Illinois...
...average American, the name Soviet Russia brings a confused impression of endless steppes, brutish peasants, close-massed regiments marching by the tomb of Lenin, and occasional academic debates on the five-year plan. In-"Out of Chaos," Ilya Ehrenbourg has added to this impression, brought in to clearer focus, and produced an interesting tabloid view of both the human and production side of the Russia of the present...
...Boniface, In Fulda last week the Church made its annual conference of bishops a show of strength. All over the town fluttered the gold-&-white flag of the Papacy. Pilgrims poured in, ostensibly to visit the tomb of St. Boniface who as "Apostle to the Germans" in the 8th Century, fought against the same kind of Teutonic paganism that many a Nazi seeks to revive today. So the Nazi Konigsberg Journal recalled that Boniface placed the German Church "under Rome, and thereby laid the foundations for the later struggles of Popes and Kaisers...
...powerful California lady lies in a deathlike trance, shrouded, while the grisly organ music of her funeral fills her mansion. Lorinda Channing (Gale Sondergaard) feigns death with the aid of a struggling physician (Walter Abel) to trap a relative who has been trying to poison her. Returning from the tomb, she personally executes her would-be assassin, neatly shifts the blame to another. Between waves of goose-pimples, audiences have spells of apprehension lest good old Walter Abel get himself hanged for a deed...
Elsewhere throughout the world are other famed relics of Christ, many supposedly discovered by St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, who set out in 326 to find Christ's tomb and the True Cross. In Jerusalem she found the Holy Sepulchre, built a basilica on the spot. She met a Jew named Judas (later St. Cyriacus) who showed her a ditch containing three crosses. When one of the crosses cured a sick woman, pious Helena sought no further. To Constantinople she sent the cross, three nails and the Holy Tunic now at Argenteuil. To Trier she sent...