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...More Travels? The news of his illness broke, in midweek, in the House of Commons. In an atmosphere of solemn concern there was strong talk of making sure that henceforth the Prime Minister stay at home, that future conferences be held in London. Since war began, Churchill has traveled about 70,000 miles to talk with other statesmen. Britons thought this was not only an enormous lot but quite enough. Churchill may be of a different opinion...
...Christmas season in Moscow was the merriest since 1916-the last Christmas of the old war and the old order. It was also the most solemn. The thick snow, which makes every Moscow Christmas a white Christmas, lay heavy over a capital that is the heart of a nation. And that heart, in Russia's third wartime Christmas, beat strong and steadily with an enormous pride of achievement. It was as if the whole Russian nation, watching for the appearance of the first evening star that (according to the Russian Orthodox custom) breaks the absolute pre-Christmas fast, looked...
...this Christmas season was solemn to the Russian spirit, for deeper reasons even than military victory. By its official restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church (TIME, Sept 13) the election and recognition of a Patriarch (TIME, Sept. 27), the Soviet Government had made Moscow once more the religious capital of some 100,000,000 Orthodox Christians (there are comparatively few dissenters in Russia), had bridged the crevasses that for 25 years Bolsheviks have tried to open between Russian believers and nonbelievers. Once more the peasant trudging in from the land and catching the sunlight flash on the gilt onion "domes...
...first time in 13 centuries, a group of Mohammedans last week made the pilgrimage to Mecca (fifth religious duty of every True Believer) by air.* From Algiers two planes carried 25 Moslems to Mecca for Bairam, solemn annual festival at which every pilgrim sacrifices a ram, a he-goat, a cow or a camel...
...Door, and Beachcomber. He might still be 1'ving on his larynx if a friend had not said to him : "Sonny, I can't understand why you're not in pictures." Neither could Sonny, so he went to Hollywood. For his screen test he chose a solemn chunk of Liebestod which had originally been strained through velvet by Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, played it for laughs. When he saw Sonny's test, Producer Mark Sandrich, who was looking for a lackadaisical Kansas Marine for So Proudly We Hail, nearly rolled out of his chair. Government...