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...cordoned off from the rest of Palestine by British soldiers, the people crowded their synagogues last week. It was the time of Purim, ordinarily a time for dancing in the streets. Purim commemorates the Jews' deliverance from destruction by the Persians, as related in the Book of Esther. Now Tel Aviv's thousands prayed for deliverance from their troubles of today. At the close of services, rabbis and cantors issued warnings that children should not celebrate Purim with firecrackers or anything else that might sound like rifle fire. But a few boys did toss firecrackers at British armored...
...Thrill of a Romance," playing on Friday, you get the formula musical, dull, plush, and empty. The main attractions here are Lauritz Melchior singing "Vesti la Giubba" in the lobby of a slick Western hotel, Esther Williams in some submarine contortions, and Van Johnson as his usual creamy self...
...studio late in the forenoon, spends his daylight hours writing with his right hand, drawing and drinking coffee with his left. "It's hell being your own master," he says. "You work a 40-hour day instead of a 40-hour week." His pretty blonde wife, Esther-he calls her Bunny-brings the coffee, gets the meals and keeps guests from gumming up the production line. Slim, slack-clad Bunny Caniff doesn't have much to say when her talkative husband has visitors. Says she: "I'm afraid people will miss something Milt is saying...
...Jewish early spring festival commemorating the story of Haman, a sth Century B.C. Jew-baiter and Prime Minister of Persia's King Xerxes (Ahasuerus). The King finally had him hanged for his virulent anti-Semitism upon the intervention of Queen Esther, a beautiful Jewess. *In Ipswich, England, Tommy Hailstone, 12, was found by his sister last week, hanging by a cord in a storeroom. Said his father: "I believe Tommy had been reading in the papers about the Xiirnberg hangings and was staging a hanging himself...
...Laude: Summer Thurman Bernstein, (General Studies), John Joseph Butler, (General Studies), Norbert Thomas Byrnes, (General Studies), Robert James Cooney Jr., (History), John Lyle Fischer, (Anthropology), Benjamin Esther Gelerman, (General Studies), Michael Martin Lovezzola, (General Studies), Robert Francis McGivern, (Government), Gauntt Mahan, (General Studies), Francis Wallace Ramsey 3d, (Government...