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Then Forrest Warren wrote his last column, marked it "hold for release," sent it to the Journal to be run when he died. It ran last week. Across Page One, the Journal spread Forrest Warren's goodbye and "God bless you" to his San Diego friends, who had taught him, he wrote, that "people are still interested in helping their neighbors." Two days later in Balboa Park, 2,000 friends attended his funeral. As Forrest Warren had requested, the preacher kept his remarks brief...
...never really knew.") Twice Albert went fishing, but "the treatment of the worms . . . and the wrenching of the mouths of the fishes" were too much for him. Each night, after his prayers with his mother, he added a secret one of his own: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath, guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace...
...scratching his head for a surprise for his 1949 season. A friend told him about Haydn's 172-year-old dramma giocoso II Mondo della Luna (The World of the Moon), wherein a charlatan astronomer and some frolicsome servants persuade a fat, foolish father to bless the marriage of his daughter to a poet by taking him on a trip to the moon. It sounded like fun, but the first problem was to find the score. Il Mondo had been resurrected in Germany in 1932, but had never been produced in the U.S. Leavitt finally found the German version...
...Bless Him." A fighter whose job it is to help the Greeks fight, Van Fleet has shortcomings both as a diplomat and as an administrator. He has had his full share of criticism. He has been accused of being naive, bossy, publicity-conscious. His relations with Ambassador Grady are on the cool side, but he gets along well with Generalissimo Papagos. King Paul frequently joins the U.S. general on inspection trips to the fighting areas. Greeks who like Van Fleet, and most do, say that he is sincere san paidi-"like a child...
...days ago, near Van Fleet's headquarters, an old woman in black pushed past a guard and asked the general's aide if that was "Van Flit" coming down the steps. When the surprised officer nodded, the woman crossed herself, murmured "God bless him," and hurried away...