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...pulpit. Drawing out the lots, the bishop saw that the first three were blank, and to three candidates he said: "Thou art free." To the fourth, a hay & feedstore employe named Franklin L. Alderfer, he said, noting that the slip bore writing: "Thou art chosen." Brother Alderfer wept...
...cinema the youngsters perched on the backs of the folded seats until their teacher explained they could be let down. They saw Tom Sawyer, wept when Tom and Becky were lost in the cave, failed to laugh at any part...
...party of Communist cameramen swept into court with batteries of klieg lights for the kill. Movie cameras recorded that Communist Alexei Rykov, who succeeded Nikolai Lenin as Soviet Premier (1924), wept in the dock of 21 prisoners as he awaited death, while the great Communist ideologist and "Heir of Lenin," Nikolai Bukharin, onetime editor of official Izvestia, stared dry-eyed at the floor. The, 21 did not know that, so far as could be ascertained last week, the only daily or weekly papers in the world whose editors expressed the opinion that justice was being done in Moscow were exclusively...
...Academy prize-giving was Actress Rainer's second successive Oscar in a three-year film career. She won last year's for her portrayal of Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld. Sandy, rough-cut Actor Spencer Tracy, recovering in a Los Angeles hospital from a hernia operation, wept when told he had won. Last year's Oscar to Actor Paul Muni (Louis Pasteur) disappointed many who thought Actor Tracy deserved it for a row of consistently fine jobs (among them: Father Tim in San Francisco, Joe Wilson in Fury). When this year's balloting named...
Tony, Giuseppe, Marco, Frank, Mabel, Jenny, Stella and Papa & Mama Menchetti wept at 22-year-old Natalino's accident-by-bombing on the road to glory...