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...fought in the last war, was wounded, won the Military Cross. Since then some wits have called him "Empsey Dempsey Empsey" (M.C. Dempsey, M.C.). Like many another aloof and quiet man, Dempsey has perversely acquired nicknames. Samples: "Bimbo" and "Lucky." In 1940 Dempsey went to France with the 13th Infantry Brigade and took it out again over the Dunkirk beaches. In England he rose rapidly through command and staff posts, learning about tank warfare and amphibious operations. He got into the last stages of the Africa campaign commanding the XIII Corps (he considers 13 his lucky number), took it into...
Thus last week, by a simple roll-call vote, did Sergei Vladimirovich Simansky (Alexei), 67, become the 13th Patriarch of the Holy Orthodox Eastern Catholic and Apostolic Church. This week he was crowned in the illuminated forest which arc lights and laurel decorations had made of Bogoyavlensk Cathedral. Unseen silver bells tinkled, rose to full tones as the Patriarch entered, wearing a white veil and miter, and a green silk robe with white and red stripes and golden cords over the shoulders. With the end of the elaborate service, Alexei's religious authority over 100,000,000 souls became...
...13th Year. The Right Rev. Angus Dun, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, prayed: Almighty God, for the sake of this people, and of all peoples, lift those who bear authority among us above the claims of class. . . . Make them in truth the resolute servants of the common good. Neat, grey Harry Truman, onetime Senator from Missouri, stepped forward and took the oath as Vice President...
...applause died down, Franklin Roosevelt placed his right hand on his old family Bible, on the same page where it has rested at five previous inaugurations†: the 13th Chapter of 1st Corinthians, which ends: And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. His repetition of the oath, after it had been intoned by Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, was clear and firm, ending with the familiar so help...
...year's best buy in art books went on sale last week. It is Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art (distributed by Random House; $6.50), an outsized (11-by-15-in., 5-lb.) volume containing 85 excellent color reproductions, ranging from a 13th-Century Byzantine Madonna and Child to Paul Cézanne's 19th-Century Still Life. Paired off with each picture are such superior selections from world literature as Nathaniel Hawthorne on Fra Angelico, Walter Pater on Botticelli, William Blake on William Blake...