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...That tore it. A News Chronicle columnist said that the Economist "accurately expresses the thoughts of millions of ordinary Britons." Two weighty sobersides, the Yorkshire Post (owned by relatives of Anthony Eden's wife) and the London Times turned their thunders on hitherto sacrosanct Franklin Roosevelt, roared that it was time for the U.S. to state its policies and define its world responsibilities. (After the President's message to Congress, the Times applauded.) Editor Crowther, whose first outburst had been marked by well-reasoned rage, came up again with an ill-timed, ill-natured, ill-reasoned diatribe against...
...blind, and sculpture became his only means of expression. To his exhausted eyes, his models were a mere blur. To translate forms of muscles and bone, he first had to feel their original conStruction with his hands. He used calipers to measure bare knees or arms, sometimes tore living flesh by clumsy searching for clay perfection. Augmenting a keen sense of touch with the memories of his earlier, visual studies, he continued almost to the last of his 83 years to fashion his distinctively animated dancers and horses. He worked in semisecrecy, in perishable wax and clay, left the figures...
...show business, Broadway's limber-faced Danny Kaye was nevertheless an X quantity as a disembodied voice. An album of records by him had been a sellout, but even his most ardent fans thought of him as a wild-eyed, sharp-nosed, mile-a-minute mugger who tore himself apart with frantic pantomime. Last week he proved he could be funny in the dark...
...conference of all parties was called for late next afternoon, with safe conduct for all ELAS delegates. British security officers tore their hair. Their charge-the Empire's No. 1 man-was blithely disdainful of personal precautions. That morning a ton of German dynamite and Italian TNT had been discovered in a sewer under the Hotel Grande Bretagne, home of high-ranking British officers and Greek Cabinet Ministers. Even as Churchill arrived at the conference a distant sniper pinged in his direction. Doorways bristled with guards, tanks watched every intersection. Overhead Spitfires patrolled...
...coming, said, "I shall let myself be taken because I want the people of France to know there are priests too who are willing to give their lives. I ask only all your prayers that I may have the strength necessary to resist torture." Though the Gestapo tore off his ears, his comrades' prayers were answered; he betrayed no secrets...