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...French Communists have recently been playing up Joan of Arc as a nationalist symbol of resistance to Anglo-Saxon (U.S.) influence in France. On Joan of Arc Day last May, Communist factory girls and housewives laid a wreath at the foot of Joan's statue in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Martyrdom Denied | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). Wreath of Roses, with Conrad Nagel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Three hundred-odd Wellesley seniors will sprint for a husband Monday morning, in the Waban wenches' annual hoop race. The winner of the race--down Wellesley's Severance Hill--traditionally picks up a wreath and the class's first husband...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Girls Roll Hoops for Hubbies | 4/29/1950 | See Source »

...single grave rest the remains of a onetime 19th Century German beauty, Jenny von Westphalen, her grandson Harry Longuet, her servant girl Helene Demuth and her famed husband Karl Marx. Now & then a Communist or Socialist deputation stops by to pay its respects and leave behind a wreath. Otherwise the grave of the man whom both Communists and Socialists claim as their spiritual father is neglected and weed-grown. Its official custodian, another Marx grandson named Edgar Longuet, lives far away in a Paris suburb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Weeds | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...Pound. The rest of Washington apparently agreed. While the President closeted himself in the White House for a conference with State Department officials on the Far East, the Shah was whirled off through a busy schedule of sightseeing, wreath-laying and conferences at Mount Vernon, Annapolis and the Pentagon, a formal dinner with Secretary of Slate Dean Acheson. At a luncheon given by the Overseas Writers, the Shah, who learned English in school in Switzerland, struck just the right note by announcing: "You are all, I am told, what is called 'working' newspapermen. I work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Truman & the Shahinshah | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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