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Like death's shroud, snow fell on Ortona. Over the town's rubble and corpses a chill Apennine wind keened. Ortona, for centuries alive and pleasant on a rocky shelf above the slate-colored Adriatic, now lay dead and hideous. The battle had surged...
...Moscow, wore the uniform of an R.A.F. air commodore, usually changed to dinner jacket at night. One evening he appeared as an honorary colonel of the Fourth Hussars, his old regiment. Stalin alternately wore two types of Marshal's uniforms, one in beige khaki, the other in slate-blue with white trouser-stripes...
...when the nominating committee, headed by Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, picked four candidates, all of them liberals, all graduates of Dr. Dun's Cambridge school. Both high and low church groups resented the committee's failure to put any but broad-church candidates on the slate. One group, which favored New York City's young Dr. C. Avery Mason, charged that their candidate was a victim of politics in the best Washington style. Mason ran second, but far behind...
...Hall is now a relic neither loved nor hated by the students. Its fantastic Gothic architecture, combining a red and blue slate roof with a monstrous green clock tower, no longer appeals to the aesthetic taste of the twentieth century. To the unsuspecting Freshman it looms up on his first day as an artistic night-mare. Since the commons was discontinued in 1924, the tremendous nave is used only for registration, examinations, and Commencement. At these times the few remaining busts may be seen unreverently adorned with hats of modern style. Many debate the feasibility of junking the collossal structure...
...Waterbury Democrat dropped from the State ticket. Cross did not say he would not run if Daniel J. Leary was nominated for Lieutenant Governor. But he did insist that the nomination for Governor be held in abeyance until after the nomination of a candidate for second place on the slate. Worried by the thought that Cross might not run if his wishes were flouted, the Old Guard politicians made haste to drop Leary. Some years later the "Waterbury gang" was convicted under the Corrupt Practices Act, which proved that Cross, the "innocent" from the Yale campus, had had his political...