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...Frail, flame-haired Fabio Signorini, 10, was the smartest boy in his class-and the only one unable to bring a postcard to school for the geography project. With tears of shame in his eyes, Fabio explained matters to his teacher. Neither his mother nor his grandparents can read or write. His father was captured by the Russians on the Don nine years before, and, like 60,000 other Italian soldiers, has not been heard of since. None of the other ten relatives who share the poverty-ridden farmhouse in Sant' Alessandro had ever sent or received a postcard...
Christmas comes to Australia in a month when vacationers are thinking of holidays on the beach, to Normway and Sweden during their long, fozen night and to us when soft snows seem to form a halo around every light and candle flame in the the window. For the Russian Orthodox Church, Christmas falls 13 days later than ours...
...very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.Christmas comes to Australia in a month when vacationers are thinking of holidays on the beach, to Norway and Sweden during their long, frozen night and to us when soft snows seem to form a halo around every light and candle flame in the window. For the Russian Orthodox Church, Christmas falls 13 days later than ours...
...MacLennan and Glendinning are convinced that their "bomb" can be used in any industry where explosive dust or gas is a hazard. Veteran combat pilots who saw the "bombs" demonstrated at Farnborough, and who have seen exploding fuel tanks destroy a plane in a great puff of smoke and flame, had only one question: "When do we get them?" The British Ministry of Supply hopes to install the new extinguishers on British military planes within a year...
...ancient Rome the Vestal Virgins were six daughters of patrician families who were appointed at the age of six to ten to keep a flame constantly burning in the temple of Vesta, Rome's goddess of the hearth. Twenty centuries later, when Producer Gabriel Pascal got around to casting six Vestal Virgins for RKO's Androcles and the Lion (TIME, Oct. 15), no less than 2,200 hopefuls from Hollywood's horde of extras felt eminently qualified for the parts. One literal-minded applicant enclosed a medical affidavit certifying her eligibility, but many felt that photographs...