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...Crane Fond of Russia...
...charge of censorship Vargas put young Civis Muller, an officer of Brazil's Federal District Police. Censor Muller, ambitious, fond of authority, but with no newspaper experience whatever, issued a series of exacting regulations, some of them virtually impossible to obey, put censors in every Brazilian editor's office, large or small, in the offices of such foreign news agencies as United Press, Associated Press, Britain's Reuter's, France's Havas, Germany's Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau...
...number of Autry fans, however, when added up, is colossal. Recently, on a tour of Great Britain, where he was living proof of the fond British belief that the U. S. is still quite woolly, he outdid Gracie Fields's attendance records in her own bailiwick, in Dublin paraded before 750,000. In the Motion Picture Herald's, annual Exhibitors' Ten Best for 1939, Autry was top Western star for the third straight year, a record made phenomenal by the fact that his pictures rarely if ever have hit the big, first-run theatres, but pile...
...Rome, the Pope spoke to the resident Cardinals. His mind went back, too, to a conversation three years ago with a big man in Washington, a fond talk of peace on earth when there was still peace on earth. He thanked Franklin Roosevelt for his "gratifying Christmas message," and for sending such an outstanding man to be "the first Ambassador of the provisional Embassy at the Vatican." Damning "evil" Russia, praising "worthwhile" Finland, he asked the world to ponder, on the night when the angels sang, that man has too many instruments of death, too few of mercy and justice...
Your article on schoolmarm Campbell's one-room Iowa school brings back many, fond memories. I spent the first eight years of my schooling in just such an institution including the black stove in the centre of the room. Such an educational beginning has always seemed to me to be adequate, providing one is a consistent and thorough reader of TIME...