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Small, chipper Bishop Gerald Francis Burrill, 49, was unimpressed by angry Dr. Higgins, doubted that the subject would even come up at this week's convention. "It's just a tempest in a teapot," he shrugged. "Or you might say it's an old chestnut that's been rolling around for years. Our church is a church of tension. We try to preserve within it the doctrines and discipline of the Catholic Church, but with a difference. This argument has been fought up and down the river ever since the Reformation . . . The majority of our people...
...went to the U.T., Hitchcock and Harry and we had considerable trouble. If, this time, The Harder They Fall must fall, and fall it must, one can explain the phenomenon by saying there isn't too much to say that it doesn't say better itself. No viscous chestnut, The Harder They Fall pulls no punches in exposing the fight racket. Bogie gleefully battles out the old question of free will versus determinism in this thriller with metaphysical aspirations. The death of a boxer is seen as a boxer would see it. Any Bogie film is good; this...
Around the Corner, Pam-Pam. But for the Café de la Paix. the end of World War II nearly proved disastrous. As prices skyrocketed, the carriage trade moved on to less expensive places; Frenchmen still crowded the chestnut-shaded sidewalk tables, but they dawdled longer over aperitifs or coffee, and U.S. tourists were warned off by the high prices noted in guidebooks. The Café de la Paix might have toppled like a French Cabinet had it not been for energetic Paul Chapotin, 41, son-in-law of the restaurant's second-generation owner, 74-year-old Andr...
...last. Ralph is usually reliable. Just a little slow reacting. Now climbing Chestnut Hill. Feet get tired but we stand up and work together. We'll make it. Don't you worry. Pretty homes, not many cars, women crying "Don't feel badly boys...
...Concerto Contest, David Hurwitz and Robert Freeman, both played with considerable technical skill. Hurwitz, in Mendelsohn's Violin Concerto, displayed accurate intonation and a fine singing tone. The richness of even his lower strings stood out clearly against the greater mass of the orchestra. Pianist Robert Freeman chose another chestnut, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. This piece, with its viscous melody in the middle, is a musical hodge-podge. It serves mostly as a showpiece for pianists, and Freeman gave it a truly virtuoso performance. He showed a wily mastery of the keyboard that partially...