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...breast said, "Excuse me." One of the strange episodes was the shearing of the lambs: "Postulants from a previous group were seated on wood benches over which presided three nuns with clippers and shears. The heads were already clipped bare as a kneecap and the stone floor adrift with chestnut and blonde locks, some of which clung to the shoes of the barber nuns. More interesting than the barbering was the sight of the nuns talking with the postulants-a special permission, she supposed, to ease the nervousness of the shorn ones who had a tendency to giggle when they...
InRing Round the Moon, which opened the Group 20 Players' fourth season at Wellesley last week, playwright Jean Anouilh and translator Christopher Fry are working with a regular chestnut of a dramatic medium. The plot concerns the attempt of a young bon vivant to amuse himself by smuggling a poor dancer into a society ball, so that she may embarrass all his snobby friends and at the same time cure his identical-twin brother of lovesickness. Among the several figures crouched behind the bushes--one can't help thinking--are Richard Sheridan, Oscar Wilde, and whoever it was that wrote...
...Thomas Ehrlich of Lowell and Cambridge; Louis H. Fingerman of Winthrop and Dorchester; Robert M. Gargill of Adams and West Roxbury; Ruber F. Gittes of Adams and Melrose; Arthur C. Gossard of Kirkland and Quincy; William T. Green Jr. of Lowell and Belmont; William S. Kaden of Adams and Chestnut Hill; Robert D. Richardson 3rd of Eliot and Concord...
Also, Harold R. Scholnick of Leverett and Brighton; Frederic A. Sharf of Kirkland and Chestnut Hill; Stephen B. Shohet of Leverett and Boston; Edgar G. Ward of Winthrop and Dedham; Kenneth G. Wilson of Lowell and Concord; and Irving K. Zola of Dudley and Mattapan...
...small army of about 15,000 police, plainclothesmen, helmeted Gardes Republicaines and firemen were deployed over Paris to help keep the peace. Along the route of march from the railroad station to the Elysee Palace, where the visitors were to stay, Parisian firemen stood watch on rooftops, and every chestnut tree shaded a cop or a detective. Public sewers and private houses along the way had been combed by security men, and wooden barriers, well guarded by the police, had been set up to hold the welcoming crowds out of bomb-throwing range. Even Tito himself was impressed. "Things...