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...National Chairman John Hamilton hastened on July 4 to the tomb of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, Va., bearing a floral wreath and saying: "Today the Democratic Party . . . under the domination of usurpers, pays only lip service to the immortality of Jefferson...
...burial place at the base of the Kremlin Wall. His mission was to investigate the grave of John Reed, U. S. Communist, journalist and poet. He found it intact. The first American to visit the grave since U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William C. Bullitt placed a wreath on it in 1932, Corliss Lamont hoped to spike rumors that Reed's body had been removed and that Reed, because of his praise of Leon Trotsky in his Ten Days That Shook the World, had been posthumously proscribed by orthodox Stalinists...
First Day. An Italian stiletto, or "Fascist Honor Dagger" as it is called, was worn by Adolf Hitler, emerging on the first morning of his visit, after having received Benito Mussolini for a half-hour conference at the King's Palace. Der Fuhrer laid a wreath at the Pantheon (royal tombs), another at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a third at the Fascist Altar on the Capitoline Hill. Lunch was at the King's Palace, followed by a go-minute conference in Il Duce's office, and then the two Dictators drove to Rome...
With his Caesar a smash hit, Welles flung his laurel wreath into a cupboard, backed Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock-the sceneryless, music-quickened strike play which a scared WPA had dumped overboard the season before- and The Cradle rocked like mad. Then, having enough of boom and roar. Welles and the Mercury turned back to Elizabethan times for a bellylaugh, rigged up Thomas Dekker's bawdy, roistering The Shoemakers' Holiday. That was a success...
Last week, accompanied by 11-year-old Ann Gillis, a green-eyed, red-haired veteran of eleven pictures, Tommy was back in Manhattan. Together the pair had curtsied to the press, spoken over the radio, journeyed to Elmira, N. Y. to lay a wreath on Mark Twain's grave. Back home, Tommy sighed, "Give me The Bronx any time." But The Bronx was not the same: the fan mail was already starting to come in. Wrote one: "I heard you on the radio last night and I am looking forward to seeing your picture very much. It was very...