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...entertainment began, swinging from rowdy boogies to fervent waltzes, all in praise of the Lord. First was the Gospel Melody Quartet, then the Harmoneers, featuring Tenor Happy Edwards in eye-rolling low comedy, the LeFevre Trio (Eva Mae and Urias LeFevre plus Little Troy Lumpkin) in an almost solemn harmonization of In My Father's House Are Many Mansions. After that came M. C. Fowler's own group, the white-suited Oak Ridge Quartet, then the Blackwood Brothers, who brought down the house with Have You Talked to the Man Upstairs?, and Atlanta's own Statesmen...
...Attlee party's attendant British newsmen cabled their first overall impressions of Red China. Wrote Rene MacColl of the Daily Express: "The most solemn experience I have had was the visit to Peking jail. On the surface, it looked more like a well-run factory than a prison. But when you stopped to watch the prisoners at their work, you realized that they were going about their tasks with a dedicated ferocity of purpose and speed . . . Nearly all of them were under sentence of death, and only by making good on output for two long, sickening years could they...
...solemn occasion for the distinguished group of lowans who met on that day in 1847, under the oak trees just beyond the muddy main street of the pioneer Iowa City. Less than a year had passed since the state of Iowa had been admitted to the Union, but by order of the First General Assembly, the distinguished group of citizens were already looking over a site for the state university. "On that day," reported one of them later, "we met out-of-doors in a clearing in the hazel brush . . . Before the meeting, we got down on our knees...
...portrait opposite, which has been purchased by the Kress Foundation for Washington's National Gallery, proves the point. Napoleon stands plump and solemn in the white satiny knickers and gold epaulets of a general of the Chasseurs of his own Imperial Guard. He wears dangling on a red ribbon the medal of the Legion of Honor, which he himself instituted. Every detail of the picture shows David's utter and icy control of his medium; the whole shows something more-his red-hot hero worship. For all its artificiality of costume and scene, his picture gives Napoleon...
With this solemn dialogue between France's Marc Boegner and the crowd at Soldier Field, the World Council of Churches last week dramatized the unity of Christians in a mammoth "Festival of Faith...