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...neighbors cared about what passed in the house of the widow Lehrte? So unquiet were the times, and so jumpy the world, that Frau Lehrte and a young soldier out for an afternoon of fun last Week caused an excited incident in besieged Berlin. Some U.S. newspapers reported it under black headlines. Said one story: "Russian troops have opened fire inside the U.S. sector...
Born. To John L. Lewis Jr., M.D., 29, quiet surgeon-son of the unquiet U.M.W. boss, and Sophie Madler Lewis, M.D., 27, practicing physician before marriage: their second child, first son; in Baltimore. Name: undecided. Weight...
Somewhere between these two poles is Francis O'Hara's "The Unquiet Grave," which the Advocate's editors have placed in the unsavory category of "controversial" literature. It is good, but not especially so, and certainly not controversial. The idea of the story, which seems to me exaggeratedly picturesque, is generally hidden behind a style which is floridly poetic. Perhaps this concealment is a good thing, for the style is definitely the strong point of the piece...
...will not, however, need to buy the coffin. They can rent it temporarily, like the coffins in Berlin. Unless the Russians accept, as they probably will not, the year-old U.S. offer of a control treaty over Germany, the bones of contention in Central Europe will remain uncoffined and unquiet...
Woman of the Year. Though 1946 was unquiet with the drums of war behind and the danger of war ahead, a deeply happy thread ran through its garish pattern; it was a year of homecoming and, therefore, a woman's year. To loyalties older than flags jealous governments had released some 60 million men. (The Americans chafed noisily at demobilization delays, and returned horrified by the scarcity of water closets and breakfast foods beyond the oceans; the Russians returned discontented at the remembrance of fine houses, fabulous watches, and women with soft hands across the Oder, the Danube...