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...golden with ripening grain, Japanese entered enthusiastically last week into their Thanksgiving day, Kannamesai, which dates back to 28 B.C. Emperor Hirohito donned gaudy ceremonial robes, cleansed his hands with holy water and reported to his imperial ancestors on the new crop. Then he placed samples on the Shinto altar: a few fruits and vegetables, a bottle of sake, and a small box of new rice, harvested with his own hands...
...Hildy Johnson (nicely played by Lew Parker) and its cold-blooded managing editor Walter Burns (badly muffed by Arnold Moss) still lived up to the public's conception of the Fourth Estate: they buried the hatchet to bring off a beat; Hildy kept his girl waiting at the altar, as a good reporter should; and Burns double-crossed Hildy to keep him, as a good editor must...
...time loyal Bill Dunnigan was through giving the little girl a big funeral, her drab birthplace, Coaltown, Pa., was jammed with bishops, Hollywood producers, newspapermen, sobbing atheists, tender rabbis. Orchids poured in from the greenhouses of the rich; the local miner's union donated a handmade altar. Even St. Michael ("the saint who took on Kid Lucifer and put him down and out for the full count") came across with a couple of helpful miracles, and the corpse's ghost made several personal appearances, clad in "a faded blue dress...
...raising this fundamental question, so that none could evade it, the four Americans who died, needlessly, in time of peace, on a routine mission, may in Lincoln's words have laid a costly sacrifice upon the altar of freedom...
...typical ritual, according to William Seabrook, late, hard-drinking popularizer of the incredible: "Before an altar surmounted by a crucifix turned upside down, and on which the girl who is a virgin lies naked, the black-robed priest intones parts of the true Mass backward, in dog Latin, substituting the word 'evil' for 'good' and the word 'Satan' for 'God.' The prostitute, robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over...