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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caught in the Torrent. The crippled deputy was all but unknown in the National Assembly; his party was one of the motley collection of center groups which produce the passing parade of French postwar governments. But his choked, emotional voice was, that day last week, the authentic voice of France. Divided on almost everything else, Frenchmen united in fear and hatred of Germany...
This should be certified as a strictly ancient chestnut. For comparison, see A Fickle Widow, a i sth century Chinese story by an unknown author...
London's Institute of Contemporary Arts announced an international contest pretty sure to put a gleam in the eye of sculptors everywhere. Thanks to an anonymous donor, the institute said, it will pass out $30,000 in prizes for the best sculpture on the specified subject, "The Unknown Political Prisoner." Entries, due in September, will be sifted by regional juries throughout the world; final judging will be in London. Only snag so far: Professor Vladimir Kemenov of Moscow's Academy of Arts, invited to represent Russia on the panel of nine judges, has neglected to reply...
Eleven miles from the Red Head cemetery, Dr. Orr found a burying place of still another unknown people whom he calls the "Black Bottoms." Instead of sitting upright with their skulls colored red, the 129 skeletons were lying on their sides, with the bones of the lower spine and pelvis colored black...
...Full Nether Lip. Nelly was born, said the journals of the age, in a Covent Garden bawdyhouse, of a father unknown and a mother notorious as "old Madam Gwyn," a brandy-soak "that in one day could twenty quarts consume, / And bravely vaunt she durst it twice presume." (One day she durst, and the next she was fished out of a Chelsea brook; Nelly, rich and famous by then, gave her one of the flashiest funerals of the Restoration...