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...Harry Truman sends a committee of private citizens off to Philadelphia to visit the U.S. Mint to make sure it isn't cheating on the metal content of U.S. coins. Before the group's departure, he gravely signs ornate commissions for each. Afterward, he receives a solemn report which notes that the mint is making no wooden nickels, no nickel-plated dimes...
...ever written. At 44, Whitney Griswold was just completing his freshman year as a university president. But for any president, Yale's 1951 commencement would be something out of the ordinary. Next week, as Griswold dons his academic robe and the gold chain of office, to accompany the solemn commencement procession on its traditional path from the campus to the New Haven Green and back again, he will also be marking Yale's 250th anniversary year...
Along the Great Divide (Warner) goes on the theory that an established star's debut in chaps & spurs calls for a little tone. To make Kirk Douglas at home on the range, the movie adopts a solemn, moody pace and a story line that tries him mightily with all the usual hazards that western heroes are heir to, and caps it all by supplying him with a high-class neurosis...
...Will you take this man?" the Bishop of Nancy asked the solemn-eyed bride in Latin. Princess Regina glanced demurely at her mother, who nodded permission. "Volo" (I will), said Regina. After the ceremony, which included the reading of a special benediction from the Pope, the couple left and were greeted by shouts of "Long live the Emperor!" from crowds of Frenchmen and the Austrians who had traveled to France especially for the great occasion. "Long live the Republic!" shouted French students gathered near by, and a handful of eggs hurtled toward the royal company. One egg crashed and broke...
Sacrifice on the Desert. A "shot" at White Sands Proving Ground or Holloman Air Force Base is solemn with ritual...