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Recently, also, the French democratic tradition suffered perhaps its greatest purely symbolic defeat. Marshal Pétain kicked France's hallowed Bastille Day into discard, replaced it with a new national holiday for which he picked May Day. The former French labor festival also happens to be the Marshal's own Saint...
...tomorrow morning Vag will temporarily discard his reading period slothfulness and at 9 o'clock he will walk into New Lecture Hall, take off his hat, and hear Professor Roger Bigelow Merriman, God of the course for two decades, give his last lecture in History...
...Whiskey is one of the cheapest and best painkillers known to man." So reported Dr. Harold George Wolff of Cornell last week to the Association of American Physicians meeting at Atlantic City. Earlier doctors, he said, prescribed whiskey freely but were finally forced to discard it for "moral and ethical considerations...
Putting her trust in her honey-blonde hair, a little seashore hipper-dipper, and the eye-brimming distinction she imparts to the plainest photographic studies, 20-year-old Gloria Wood, star-minded daughter of Director Sam Wood (Kitty Foyle), petitioned in Los Angeles court for permission to discard her cinemagic name, call herself just K. T. Stevens...
...based on a translation made by exiled English priests at Douai and Reims in the 16th Century. Seventy-two U.S. bishops have already urged Catholics in their dioceses to adopt the new revision. No Protestant denomination has as yet taken any comparable step in urging its members to discard the King James version for one of the several modernized translations offered in recent years...