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...taro lawyers who arranged for overnight billeting of the aged and the very important. Among these last was Querétaro's Father Sebastian Berumen. Thin and steelyeyed, he marched in straw sun helmet and knee-length gabardine coat to cover the cassock that by law he is forbidden to wear in public. With him walked his chief aides: Tranquilino González, president of Querétaro's Chamber of Commerce; John Herbert, English owner of Querétaro's ice factory, and three other businessmen and lawyers. All were followers of Father Salvador Garc...
...Fourth of July. Most of the trouble is started by son Richard (Mickey Rooney), a sensitive high-school senior who reads such radical thinkers as Shaw, Wilde and Ibsen. After innocently quoting a few of Swinburne's riper lines in a letter to his best girl, Richard is forbidden to see her again. Heartbroken, he vows to burn himself out in wild debauchery, settles for two sloe-gin fizzes with a local café dancer (Marilyn Maxwell...
...they were ready to go. Mrs. Hildebrand's son Henry, 40, spoke for the others: "We must do something to keep our way of life. Children don't believe as their fathers did. They drift to the cities. Some follow the trades, even become lawyers, which is forbidden in our belief. We want to live as the Bible taught...
Actors' Equity has forbidden all its actors to play at the' National, Washington's only legitimate theater, after Aug. 1, unless the National opens its doors to Negroes. Last week the Federal Works Agency made another theater available: the old Belasco Theater,* now a storehouse for Treasury records. Likely proviso: the highest bidder must guarantee not to discriminate against Negroes...
Duty, Not Reward. To keep the girls from outspending each other, the headmistress dresses them in green jumpers and cotton dresses. Lipstick, smoking, furs and Washington charge accounts are forbidden. So are unchaperoned dates...