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...divided over the merits of a book on sex which had somehow found its way into the sacred precincts. Some of the girls, after a diffident look, decided the book was "icky." Frederika took the firm stand that anybody who thought a book like that was icky was pretty darn icky herself. A more serious controversy raged over the politics of Adolf Hitler, whom Freddy at first defended with all the stridency of most German youth of her generation. Girlish arguments over Hitler occasionally ended in tears at Miss May's, but as the school year went on, Frederika...
...President Eisenhower's remark that Episcopalians "are too darn dignified" [Sept. 21 ]: as a "too darn dignified" Episcopalian who voted for Mr. Eisenhower with the hope that he would, among other things, restore some semblance of dignity to the presidential office, I was sorely disappointed to learn that he would speak disparagingly of any denomination...
Being an Episcopalian, I would like to comment on the President's remark, but I'm "too darn dignified...
...what denomination the chaplain belonged to. Mamie thought he was an Episcopalian. I knew he wasn't a Presbyterian when he said 'trespasses' instead of 'debts' in the Lord's Prayer. But I knew he wasn't an Episcopalian. They are too darn dignified. I like to be enthusiastic...
...wrong." And from his home in Dunkirk. N.Y., old Dan Reed, who lost a slugging match to the President on excess profits taxes in July, said of his relations with Ike, "We are very close friends." Of Scott's grumble, Reed chuckled: "Well. Hughy'll say darn near anything for publicity...