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...taste of traditional glare and excitement when Independence Day rolls around this week-the "Horribles," grotesquely costumed children, will parade along a few village streets, and some towns will light big bonfires at midnight on the Third (a pile of barrels a hundred feet high awaits the torch on Salem's Gallows Hill). But the U.S. as a whole will have a much more sterile diet-packaged fireworks shows in city parks and packaged patriotic sentiments on television...
...Recognition that change and reform are not the same things, and that "innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress...
Durable Cinemactress Joan Crawford, doing her first song & dance role in 13 years in MGM's Technicolored Torch Song, struck a barstool pose with her French poodle to give shapely proof that the famed Crawford legs are still worth the price of admission...
...shot by a firing squad in 1811 after leading a revolt against Spain, and since then every artist worth his salt has honored him with a portrait. Diego Rivera has shown Hidalgo's brooding visage in half a dozen murals; Jose Clemente Orozco depicted him with a flaming torch of liberty and counted the painting among his greatest works. The last of the big three to tackle Hidalgo is David Alfaro Siqueiros, who was commissioned by San Nicolas University in Morelia to paint a mural for a celebration commemorating the 200th anniversary of Hidalgo's birth...
Heaton Nicholls' plan is for a federal South Africa, split int01) a Boer Republic in Transvaal, Orange Free State and part of Cape Province, 2) a British dominion in Natal and the rest of the Cape. Fire-eating veterans of the anti-Malan Torch Commando back Nicholls to the hilt, but the leaders of the Opposition United Party call his scheme "preposterous," and declare that a British attempt at secession might risk a second Boer...