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The producers of "Everything's On Ice" made a mistake when they built the show around a plot. The completely uninteresting story, known only to diligent program-readers, ties the performers down, though the comedians get around the restriction, simply by doing what they feel like. Smacking of vaudeville, the...
Tall, stooping Rt. Rev. William Marshall Selwyn is only worried about one thing: carfare. To visit the 80 chaplains in his far-flung see will take him at least two years of diligent travel. His Church of England stipend of $5,000 a year does not allow for much travel...
It was mainly the work of 77-year-old Monsignor Angelo Mercati, Prefect of the Vatican Archives, who began looking into the papal roster during the reign of the present Pontiff's predecessor, Pius XI. Two centuries ago, Giovanni Marangoni, custodian of the Roman catacombs, made up a list...
His obvious interest in all the people, his careful preparation for every battle and his willingness to stick his neck out have finally won him the respect of some of his old enemies. Wrote the New RePublic's Washington columnist, T.R.B.: "Tactless, humorless and almost incapable of dissimulation, Taft...
"A fairly diligent search through the magazine reveals two discreet allusions to grey hair, but if there is anywhere a direct mention of fatness or middle-age I have not found it. Birth and death are not mentioned either: nor is work, except that a few recipes for breakfast dishes...