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...only times the top-hatted, morning-coated little Foreign Minister seemed to brighten were when he talked to men of peace. In Moscow Peaceful Joe Stalin dropped in on Yosuke Matsuoka's interview with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, and Matsuoka glowed. In Rome the Protestant Japanese and the Pope had a long, 65-minute talk. Afterward the Pope told a group of Japanese seminarists that the interview had been "a fine one." Minister Matsuoka called it "the prettiest moment of my life...
Among the items on order for U. S. defense are 99 hostesses, to brighten the soldier's lot at 33 Army training camps...
Like all self-respecting clubs, The Lambs has its traditions. No woman may ever brighten its doors. No dramatic critic (as with The Players) may ever become a member. Every rector of Manhattan's Church of the Transfiguration ("Little Church Around the Corner") is made an honorary member of the club, as the result of an oft-told anecdote: When Joe Jefferson sought to bury an old Lambs actor, he was turned down by the snooty rector of a Fifth Avenue church, who loftily suggested that he "try the little church around the corner." Ever since, the "little church...
...young team gains experience, it may be able to match most of the League fives in everything but height. Unfortunately, there are no ready-made tall stars on this year's Yardling squared to brighten the future. Inexperience, however, is a common virtue for Stahleymen...
...Francis Potter, onetime Baptist, onetime Unitarian, onetime Universalist. Long a popularizer of religion, in books and lectures, Dr. Potter is currently absorbed with the study of extrasensory perception (telepathy, clairvoyance, prophecy), believes it possible to identify this phenomenon with Humanism. It has been Dr. Potter's custom to brighten his services by such devices as using rosebuds to baptize babies. He has made his Humanists work at their rather insubstantial faith by devoting themselves to self-improvement (through art, music, etc.) and to human improvement, through cooperation with "progressive" organizations. Hence Dr. Potter chose, from among 20-odd causes...