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...Moonbeam & the Wind. The bird's finest hour came when French Communist Pierre Gamarra turned it into a charming fable. The wind and a moonbeam visit Pablo Picasso in his home on the Riviera. They beg him for a bird, big and strong, to carry a little girl to Wonderland. "To Wonderland?" asks Picasso, rubbing his chin. "What's wrong with this little girl?" "She's afraid of war," whispers the wind. Whereupon Picasso seizes his pen and draws a white dove...
...Smiling Epilogue. Some old versions of the story end there, but Mann has found in others the makings of a remarkable epilogue: Sibylla makes a journey to Rome to beg the new Pope for absolution. The two pretend not to recognize each other, but Sibylla at last bursts out: "Father of my children, ever-beloved child!" Each finally acknowledges that even when they first met they knew each other as mother...
Riding the Rods. Last week, this year's crop of winners had plenty to report. They had covered nine different countries, had slept in haylofts, ridden the rods, done everything but beg, borrow or steal to get along. One boy had thumbed his way to Sweden to study cellulose factories, had earned his bread by singing in the inns along...
Liberal leader Clement Davies rose last week in the House of Commons and said: "I beg to move that this House deplores the decision to continue the banishment of Tshekedi Khama from the Bamangwato Territory . . . and calls upon His Majesty's Government to rescind the order and allow him to dwell freely within the territory of his tribe...
...said he would like to set up a new house for the poor in Albuquerque. The archbishop approved, and Brother Matthias and three other brothers moved into an old building given them by a local parish. They all slept on the floor at first, but Brother Matthias managed to beg 20 beds and blankets, cooking utensils and food. They called themselves the Brothers of the Good Shepherd and last January opened their doors to the poor. Last month Archbishop Byrne blessed their garb-white cassocks without cowls. After a year or two, if all goes well, a committee of investigation...