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...current national best-seller list includes two novels with religious themes. Jewish refugee Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette (a story of Our Lady of Lourdes) has sold over 500,000 copies. Protestant Minister Lloyd C. Douglas' The Robe (a story of Christ's passion) has sold 240,000 copies...
...been Joseph Beecham's idea, but he was finally converted to his son's music, began to back him. In 1914 Joseph Beecham's long passion for theatrical properties reached a climax when (in a syndicate) he bought no less an item than London's Covent Garden Opera House, complete with the vast Covent Garden vegetable market that adjoins it. When World War I broke, Beecham pere's colleagues backed out, left him holding the bag. In the bag was nominal ownership of the Opera House, the adjoining market, nine other theaters, and an unpaid...
...What religion could man worship to fill the aching heart that all the glory of the good material things of life had left empty? "There is no sure shield against the tyranny of this ruinous passion for possession," said Britain's gentle, eloquent, 77-year-old teacher W. Macniele Dixon, "save a transference of our affections from possession to admiration, from immoderate craving for wealth and power to an intense longing for beauty and excellence...
...feature on tonight's program of the Harvard Film Society is "The Passion of Joan of Arc," a French film depicting the trial of the Saint. Done in a practically continuous series of close-ups, this film is a good example of the transition period just before the introduction of talking pictures...
...Australia, 62-year-old Lieut. General Walter Krueger assumed command of the newly created Sixth Army under 63-year-old General Douglas MacArthur. Prussian-born General Krueger, whose passion is military strategy, boosted his reputation in the 1941 maneuvers when his Third Army (whose command he relinquished recently) roundly trounced Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second Army. His chief of staff at that time: Dwight Eisenhower...