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Married. Ethel Barrymore Colt, 32, brunet, convent-bred actress daughter of Ethel Barrymore; and John Romeo Miglietta di Carmiano, fiftyish, Oxford-educated Italian-born executive of American Republics Corp. (oil); she for the first time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
Monsignor Knox retired from Oxford to a Shropshire convent (as chaplain) in 1939 to do his translating. He says he did not ask himself "How shall I make this foreigner talk English?" but "What would an Englishman have said to express this?" Hence he searched less for the right word than for the right turn of phrase. Like all modern translations, Knox's substitutes pedestrian clarity for the poetic imagery and sweep of the older versions...
...Margaret O'Brien, pert, hazel-eyed, seven-year-old cinemoppet (Lost Angel, Journey for Margaret), vacationed in Mexico City, wanted to see the bullfights (her mother said she was too young), instead spent her time visiting churches, said that when she grew up she would enter a convent...
...Apamama Island in the Gilberts Correspondent "Pepper" Martin found dusky Agnes Murdoch and her nieces reading TIME, learned with some surprise that Agnes reads TIME cover-to-cover each week-see cut. (Half-Polynesian, half-English Mrs. Murdoch studied for seven years at the Sisters of Mercy convent in San Francisco-is the mother of four sons, one of them Chief of Apamama...
From his cool and shabby room behind the mellowed walls of Rome's Convent of the Little Company of Mary, the 80-year-old philosopher spoke sparingly last week of things beyond the noise of war. George Santayana's fame as a poet, philosopher, novelist (The Last Puritan) made the newsmen listen to him respectfully. The old philosopher's aloof attitude was bound to irritate men who were very near to war. But his words were worth listening...