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...Some of the best news coming from the U.S. is of the dignified battle being fought by the Rev. Martin Luther King and his flock in Montgomery, Ala. Congratulations! How one must admire the dignity of our colored fellow citizens. How that dignity contrasts with the attitude of the rabble-rousing race haters. The Rev. Mr. King and his people know they are on the winning side, on the side of the future. The others show all the nervousness and pettiness of people who know they are fighting a losing battle. (THE RT. REV.) LEO A. RUDLOFF, O.S.B. Abbot Dormition...
...Ross's attempt at Strindberg was only a noble experiment, a flock of similar experiments were doing nobly in converted nightclubs and church basements all around Manhattan. This season, off-Broadway theater can look its uptown big brother squarely...
...summertime the queen of the Alps, 15,781-ft. Mont Blanc, puts only minor difficulties in the path of those who would woo and conquer her. Each year in the climbing season some 75,000 mountaineers flock to the resort town of Chamonix to have a try at scaling her heights, and most of them succeed. But in the winter, when her steep slopes are swept by gales often reaching 100 miles an hour and the temperature drops below zero, the icy-hearted mountain becomes a fickle and merciless termagant. Few, even among expert mountain climbers, care to risk...
...they would permit it to be shown. Warner Bros., the film's distributor, threatened to sue the exhibitor if he showed the cut version, but he hung out his "For Adults Only" shingle and began running it anyway. Roman Catholic Bishop Russell J. McVinney of Providence urged his flock to abide by the Legion of Decency's ban against the picture even in its censored version, but the box office reported that it had all the business it could handle...
...dynamo of public service, always busily organizing youth groups, a theatrical society, football team and other worthwhile projects. On Sundays, his sermons crackled with reproof of parishioners less disposed to such constant activity, but even the reproved agreed that handsome, young Abbé Desnoyers was a godsend to the flock...