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Carrying aloft the blazing Olympic torch, he circled the 400-meter track, with an easy, familiar stride. From the spectators came a delighted roar of applause for one of the most unforgettable of all Olympians: Finland's Paavo Nurmi, now 55, and in his Olympic days (1920-28) the greatest distance runner in the world. Stopping at the base of the giant urn, Nurmi stretched high to set it ablaze with fire relayed across Europe from Olympia. The 1952 Olympics had begun...
Elderly Hollywood breathed a little easier. By court order, the torch had been put to Actress Mary Astor's famed "Purple Diary," introduced by her then husband Dr. Franklyn Thorpe in his 1936 suit for custody of their daughter Marylyn. Though the two-volume record of Actress Astor's amorous adventures was never officially admitted into the court records, enough of it leaked out to give Hollywood some apprehensive moments. It named Hollywood's six "greatest lovers," and included a lurid description of the manly appeal of Playwright George S. (Of Thee I Sing) Kaufman ("thrilling ecstacy...
...That torch held by the chatelaine of Bedloe's Island is now used to examine the family trees of would-be immigrants. Since 1924, entry to the U.S. has been strictly rationed under the principle of national origins. Last week in the Senate, it was made clear that Congress intends to keep it thus...
...week, Florentines flocked to the scene of Savonarola's execution to celebrate the sooth anniversary of his birth. A children's choir sang. Nuns convoyed little girls in white dresses who sprinkled flowers where the scaffold once stood. At night, drummers in medieval costume led processions of torch-bearing students past the flower-decked plaque. Orated Mayor Giorgio la Pira, a Christian Democrat: "Fra Girolamo Savonarola characterized Florence . . . as a firm guardian of the spirit of political liberty and as an eternal expression of fraternity and loving-kindness between...
...Nationalists retain both their oppressive policies and their power, native rebellion seems the most likely and perhaps the only possible result. The European population of the Union is infinitesimal. Above all, it is split. The Torch Commando, a rapidly growing and already huge organization dedicated to the preservation of democratic and liberal government, includes both natives and Europeans. It numbers in its ranks six former justices of the Supreme Court, many former high army officers and government officials, and other influential and basically conservative citizens...