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...Rogers) is finally forced to accede to his wife's demands and retire from his beloved drugstore in order to follow the life of culture and pleasure which his socially minded spouse has mapped out for him. On a golf course, Mr. Rogers is truly a sight to behold in his plus fours and outspoken golf hose. The round of gaieties only increases Andy's yen to get back to his drug store and the back-room games of pinochle with the town "doc" and when his wife drags him off to the New Orleans Mardi Gras he makes...
...thousands of churches throughout the land this Sunday, devout Catholics will drop 1? in a plate in the vestibule, help themselves to copies of a magazine named Catholic Missions. On its rotogravure cover they behold a sea-&-sunset scene captioned: "Enchanted Isles. In the islands of the South Seas 1,566 missioner priests, brothers and nuns are laboring efficiently among 1,835,030 natives." Thumbing through its 24 smooth, substantial pages, readers see rotogravures of the Pope in a procession, a Chinese moppet learning the rosary, a Japanese babe on an old man's back, Indian nuns and Chinese...
...family who have been dispossessed. John puts up signs inviting other jobless to join their community-a carpenter, a stone mason, a barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit naïve joy and the carpenter leads them in prayer. But before their crops are ready for harvest their larder is depleted. The convict saves the community by arranging for one of them to get a $500 reward for his apprehension. Then comes Drought. Gloomily John...
...Behold the stomach: crammed from every dish, The tomb of boiled and roast and flesh and fish, Where bile and wind, and phlegm and acid jar, And all the man is one intestine...
...week with a service in honor of Cardinal Lepicier in the Cathedral of St. Mary. To the Sanctuary went 25,000 people, for masses, processions, hymns, Marian sermons, disputations on Mariological topics. For all who wished a souvenir there were small yellow-bound copies of Cardinal Lepicier's work, Behold Thy Mother...