Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After tea about a hundred 14-to 17-year-old veterans of the London blitz gather around the fireplace in the headmaster's living room of Westminster School, adjoining the ancient Abbey. Under the chairmanship of an OWI girl, they fire questions at a brain trust of two or three young people repatriated after living in the U.S. The brain trust is coached by Author Christopher Morley's smart 24-year-old daughter Louise, now the wife of Cameron Highlander Captain James Cochrane...
...show will be directed by Mrs. Mark deWolfe Howe, who was formerly a member of the Abbey Theatre of Dublin, which first produced "Playboy." She is closely acquainted with the play, having at one time or another played most of the female roles...
...German engineers may have discovered and improved a series of underground passages, built in the 16th Century, and connecting the ducal palace with several parts of town. There is also said to be a passage from the abbey to the vicinity of Castle Hill...
...They will carry on the agricultural life for which the Cistercians (of which the Trappists are a part) have been famous since the Order was founded in 11th Century France. The Georgia brothers will raise Holstein cattle, pigs, poultry, grains, vegetables. They also hope to pro duce the Kentucky abbey's famed Port du Salut cheese...
Signs and Silence. To get the Georgia brethren on their feet, Abbot Frederic Mary* Dunne came with the monks from Kentucky. But he will soon leave the Abbey in charge of Father Mary James Fox as superior. As superior, Father Fox is dispensed from the rule of silence, but like other Trappists he is not allowed to face a newscamera. The guestmaster may also speak (to guests) and the procurator may speak to tradesmen. Any monk can speak to the superior, but if he wishes to communicate with a brother he uses a simplified sign language. Only the abbot...