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...peak of ecstasy in the Kingdom of Peace came in 1949, when the evangelist made public his marriage to Edna Rose Ritchings, the comely 21-year-old daughter of a white Vancouver florist, his "Spotless Virgin Bride." The original Mother Divine, a Negro, had died six years earlier; her spirit, Father Divine explained, had passed into Rose's shapely form...
...Patrick T. Campbell School, Mrs. Edna Pezzolezi, an officer of PUSH ("Parents United to end Schools Hoax"), said her group had complained to the principal of the school about the quality of education there. "He told us that it didn't matter, that these children weren't doing anywhere anyway," she said...
...Never is Charlie Brown called Charlie! It's like writing Amerigo when you mean Amerigo Vespucci, like saying Edna for Edna St. Vincent Millay. It's like saying Ponce or Genghis or Pontius. Good grief...
...eventually grade-B pictures. "The film story could be anything I chose to invent," he recalls, "providing the star wore a dinner jacket at least once and was not obliged to run up or down stairs." Given a crack at a grade-A picture, Anhalt, with his first wife Edna, proved how good he could be; his first film, Panic in the Streets, starring Richard Widmark, won an Oscar for the husband-wife team in 1950. Another original was The Sniper, the story of a young man who gets his kicks out of shooting people through a telescopic sight...
...dreamed of escaping from Philistia to Bohemia. Both succeeded, Louis becoming an anthologist, poet, critic, and a man of many marriages-five in all, two of them to Jean. She plunged into music, poetry and the keeping of a salon, where she paraded such lions as Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound and Siegfried Sassoon...