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...illustrious displaced person was replaced last week. In 814, Charlemagne, first great founder of a western bloc in Europe, was buried in the basilica he had built in Aachen's cathedral. The body of the 6-ft. 4-in. monarch reclined in a silver-gilt casket, knobby with precious stones...
...Green Valley. This spring found the Tennessee Valley greener and richer than ever before. The river, which had once run brown with precious topsoil, was as clear as in Indian days - 21 dams had harnessed and controlled the floods...
Said General Bocek: "Only thus will it be possible for the new Czechoslovak Army not only to make full use of the great fighting experience of the Red Army but also to be formed in the shortest period, without loss of precious time. Our Army, which is destined for fighting, will be formed and grow in battle, and the bureaucratic conception of an army living in barracks while millions of our brothers-in-arms, men of the Red Army and of our other allies, are still fighting will be abandoned...
Gold & Jewelry. Even more dazzling than the paintings are the gold and jewelry of Goring's collection. There are stacks of tableware made out of solid gold. There are two boxes in one of the rooms, both solid gold and crusted with fine gold handiwork set with precious stones. The center piece of one is an enormous aquamarine set in gold filigree on an ivory panel. There are gold candlesticks by the dozen...
...memorial like this issue of TIME renews my faith in the undying eternal greatness of our beloved country and in that precious term "American." God bless you for portraying it so truly...