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Scandalized Laborites, who consider Lord Perth (former Ambassador to Italy) an arch-appeaser, though others who know him claim he is not pro-Fascist, merely pro-British, demanded to know if there was going to be "censorship." Promised the Prime Minister: "There will be no interference with the British Press by that department." He announced that its peacetime function would be to spread British propaganda overseas...
...Caesar's officers and a gifted mother, he was an impenetrable man with a powerful but slow-moving mind, a love of tranquil study. As a military commander he distinguished himself in the field, particularly against Germanic tribes in Gaul. According to Suetonius, the Senate erected a triumphal arch to Tiberius...
Archeologists digging this year near the Chancellery building in Vatican City came upon five sculptured panels. By last week these were generally believed to be part of the Triumphal Arch of Tiberius. One of the carvings bore the only likeness of the studious emperor as an old man (he did not ascend the throne until...
...chief bang-bang-bang artist is an insurance counselor named Donald Besdine, who broadcasts 55 times a week, in person and by transcription. But the arch radio-counselor of them all (in Manhattan there are some half dozen on the air) is a cagey, kinky-haired, 38-year-old ex-insurance man named Morris H. Siegel (M. H. to his 52 aides). Into M. H.'s Manhattan and Boston offices (Policyholders' Advisory Council) last year ventured some 40,000 persons with real or fancied insurance problems. Each of them paid $1 for the interview. Some 8,000 became...
...Rome of a bright spring morning. A vast, good-humored mob filled St. Peter's Square, craned necks toward the Arch of Bells. Suddenly the cheers exploded. Through the Arch of Bells into the square came Pope Pius XII, in gold-embroidered cape, followed by a brilliantly robed procession. The Pope climbed into a glistening, open-topped convertible sedan. Into nine other limousines clambered his retinue. By a devious four-mile route across Rome, past kneeling and cheering thousands, past the packed stands in the Via dell' Impero, the Pope's motorcade wound its slow...