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...people of Czechoslovakia (and the world) were alerted in a series of meticulously detailed bulletins, interspersed with solemn music-a pattern in close imitation of Moscow's handling of Stalin's death. At last came the death bulletin, with assurances that, "to save the life of Klement Gottwald, all was done that could be done by human power," and that "Comrade Gottwald fought for his life almost until the last moment while fully conscious," and with a warning: "There must be no weakness or panic in our ranks. Let us rally even closer around the Central Committee...
...petitioner, a plump and solemn Negro, wanted to change his name. Peaceful Heart, he felt, was a much more suitable name for a follower of Father Divine than plain old Henry Green. Judge Curtis Bok, who heard the case in Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas, was sympathetic...
...besieged West Berlin last week, the U.S. renewed a solemn promise to Germans, East & West. "Everyone in the U.S.," said Dr. James B. Conant, the new U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, "knows that here the two contending forces of this mid-20th century stand face to face. Let me make plain the position of my Government." The U.S., said Conant, is "pledged to see to it that this city continues as an unshaken outpost of the Western world. We shall continue to insist on the free circulation within Berlin of all its inhabitants. The U.S. , is determined to keep open...
Some of the effigies, including the solemn James I (of the King James Version), are too far gone for restoration. The rest are now in presentable, even beautiful shape. Lying side by side in a double glass case are Edward III and Catherine of Valois. She was not his queen, but Howgrave-Graham rather approves their effigied intimacy. Nearby is Elizabeth of York, who has recently acquired a red-gold wig and a bodice trimmed with imitation ermine. One of the canons of Westminster Abbey says that he has fallen in love with...
...song of the Chicago sound wagons, Mamie, What a Wonderful Name for the First Lady of the Land, she jumped up and blew kisses. The President stood soldierlike through it all (he spurned the easy way, a concealed stool used by Harry Truman four years ago). He stood at solemn attention for every passing flag, and whenever a contingent of marching women came by, he gallantly doffed his celebrated Homburg...