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...from Garwolin, took up a new government campaign to enforce a 1961 law banning the display of religious objects in public buildings. Dominski, a local Communist Party official, ordered crucifixes removed last December from seven lecture halls, where they had hung since the school's founding in the 1920s...
...Prussian pre-eminence following France's loss. Determined to help restore la gloire, he won admission to the prestigious St.-Cyr military academy, where he stood out for his arrogance and scholarship as well as for his height (6 ft. 5 in.). As an officer in the late 1920s, he insisted on wearing his beret tilted unconventionally to the right, and championed the superiority of tanks to fixed defenses, an unfashionable notion in the France of the Maginot Line. When his homeland was invaded in 1940 De Gaulle, then 49, put his theories into action: he threw together...
...Harris was a man of great gifts, none greater than his capacity to inspire bitter hatreds. He burst upon Broadway in the 1920s, a charismatic, rather sinister Yale dropout and former pressagent convinced that he could produce and direct plays better than anybody else. He seemed to be right. By the age of 28, Harris had four hits running in the same year, including The Royal Family and The Front Page; he was earning $40,000 a week and was acclaimed as the Wonder Boy of Broadway. "His self-belief was hypnotic," said Playwright S.N. Behrman, who got his start...
...began writing her warm, human novel about life in a small Ohio town as a response to Sinclair Lewis' acerbic Main Street. That was in the late 1920s. But for Helen Hooven Santmyer, 88, the 1982 publication by Ohio State University Press of her 1,344-page opus, . . . And the Ladies of the Club, was only the first chapter in a success story. Last week G.P. Putnam's Sons announced plans to reprint 50,000 hardback copies of her novel by August, and the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen it as a main selection. Meanwhile Santmyer...
Perkins lives with his wife and two children in a spacious 1920s-vintage house overlooking San Francisco Bay. Most weekends he putters in his garage or enters one of his roadsters in a classic-car show. He may risk his capital on the newest computer technology, but he invests his passion in mechanical relics of an earlier age. "I don't turn on to the latest electronic gadget," he says. "I turn on to older, nonelectrical things...