Word: callings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rambunctious Rebellion. The Assembly last week showed that it had determination. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak had relinquished public office at home just in time to be elected first president of the Assembly. His first act was to call for a short, practicable agenda. The Assembly rambunctiously rebelled against the Committee of Ministers, which has power to tell the Assembly what it can and cannot talk about. Cried Winston Churchill: "Why all this interference with the freedom of discussion...
Back in Hollywood, Elizabeth has refused to let a little thing like a continent come between them. She writes Bill every day and has little long-distance chats with him almost as often. Cost of one recent call: $145. At first they vowed to have no other dates, but Elizabeth felt like such a wallflower at one of Cobina Wright's parties she had that rule made a little more flexible...
Small-boy admirers of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History sometimes call it "the dead zoo." Parents, too, gape and gawk at the floodlit glass cases which the museum describes as its "natural habitat groups." In the shadowy "North American Mammals" wing are windows overlooking a family of grizzly bears dining on ants in Yellowstone National Park, wolves loping after a deer by the glow of northern lights, bull moose fighting in a marsh, and Rocky Mountain goats scrambling sky-high along a cliff...
...June of 1552, so the story goes. Membership in the Sacred College of Cardinals had fallen to 14, and all the Roman Catholic world momentarily expected Pope Julius III to call a consistory to replenish the College. When the cardinals and papal courtiers had decided that the time was at hand, a messenger was sent to ask His Holiness the customary question: "Beatissime pater, eras erit consistorium?" (Most blessed father, will there be a consistory tomorrow?) But the Pope, who had built his summer villa in the cool valley that is still called "the vineyard of Pope Julius," answered: "Cras...
...Angeles, some camera stores were lending cameras to anyone who would buy film. When customers call for their prints, the stores give them a friendly sales talk, applaud the good shots, constructively criticize the poor ones, often talk them into buying cameras...