Word: antonia
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Since 1926 Sister Antonia (Mary Ru-hall) of Effingham, Ill., has been a Catholic missionary in New Guinea. She is sweet-faced, smiling, with remarkably clear blue eyes, a low-pitched, warm voice. Last week in the U.S. military hospital...
...robust retelling of parables and miracles, by his free & easy manner with the Apostles ("Peter has no polish . . ."). Classical scholars may wince at his slangy jollities in matters Roman ("Life wouldn't be worth a punched denarius"). Psychologists will nod retroactively when Marcellus has "reasons for surmising that [Antonia] was a victim of repression." Wodehouse fans will note the Jeeves-like quality of Bodyguard Demetrius ("You will need some heavier sandals, sir ... a shower and a rubdown put you in order. I have laid out fresh clothing...
...competitions of young listeners to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. She now studies at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan, has an I. Q. of 185 (showing a mental age of 16). One of her two piano teachers is an assistant of Pianist Josef Hofmann. Able Conductor Antonia Brico drills Philippa in conducting, score reading...
...fill out the two ships' skeleton crews, 770 officers and men were imported in the Antonia but did not set foot in the U. S. *Queen Mary is capable of 32 knots, Mauretania of 22. Maximum for a submarine, on the surface, is 19 knots...
Women conductors are not a complete novelty to U. S. concertgoers. Fiery, mop-headed Ethel Leginska, conducting symphonies as early as 1926, was soon followed by Chicago's Ebba Sundstrom and Manhattan's Antonia Brico. But few of the big-league U. S. symphony orchestras have ever been led by a woman...