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Author VanOrden sends them all off to Italy on holiday. They are herded, shooed and advised, but never chaperoned, by a sophisticated marchesa. Living in a Florentine convent, they talk, dream, paint, write, compose, writhe in the agonies of their love affairs, while the sisters of the convent go calmly about their business and the great art of Florence forms a soothing backdrop. Author VanOrden's plot seems hardly worth the time. What is best about her flashingly literate book is the handsomely sketched Florentine setting, against which the bright chatter of her young Americans seems like a volatile...
Sisters Superior. In Gulu, Uganda, when burglar Alexander Oolo broke into a convent, six nuns jumped him, knocked him down, tied him up and sat on him until police arrived...
Married. Marie Dionne, 24, one of four survivors of the famed Canadian quintuplets, who in 1953 entered a convent to become a nun, but left before taking her permanent vows; and Florian Houle, 38, onetime student for the priesthood, and now a clerk at the Quebec Superior Court; in Montreal. Of the living quints, only Yvonne is now unmarried...
...attributes to him, it is no wonder that much of the story reads like a parody of Victorian melodrama. O'Neill once explained that he had trained himself as a playwright by reading "nothing but plays, great plays, melodrama" until "he was thinking in dialogue." Agnes, the convent-educated daughter of a painter, met him in a Greenwich Village joint called "The Hell Hole." As he saw her home that same evening, he said in a low, sure voice: "I want to spend every night of my life from now on with you. I mean this. Every night...
...foot in Omaha before, but one day last week the town turned out as if he were a returning hero. The Junior Chamber of Commerce met him at Union Station; he was taken on a tour of Boys Town, paid his respects to the archbishop, visited a convent for errant girls, and was named Chief Charging Buffalo by the Omaha Indians. The excuse for all the excitement seemed as zany as the celebration itself: Stan Freberg, visiting comic-turned-adman from California, had come to town to lead the Omaha Symphony Orchestra through a 6½-minute singing commercial...