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French adults celebrate not Christmas Day, which is for children, but Christmas Eve, which climaxes solemnly at midnight Mass, followed by a merry feast in the small hours. Last week, as a special dispensation, the State, which has forbidden midnight Masses since the war broke, authorized them for Christmas Eve. In Paris, priests were required to limit attendance in their churches to the capacity of available air-raid shelters nearby...
...main reasons for this difference is that usury, which accounts for far more profit in India than trade, is forbidden to Moslems by religious...
...Slacks, grey flannel or corduroy, are popular at Vassar, Smith, Sarah Lawrence, are forbidden at Wellesley and Duke. Purdue co-eds like jersey culottes (pants disguised as skirts...
...little boy in Glasgow 30 years ago William Primrose loved to saw away at an old viola that was around the house. His father, who was himself a disappointed viola player, strongly objected, set little William to practicing the violin instead. But William never forgot the charms of the forbidden viola. Years later, in Brussels, when his teacher, the late great violinist and tosspot Eugene YsaŸe, told William he had special aptitude for the viola, he switched to it for life. In 1937, when NBC officials were recruiting their new NBC Symphony, they heard a phonograph record...
More rigorous than in Great Britain itself, Canadian censorship was comparable only to the strict wartime supervision of the press in France. Under its sweeping regulations the Minister of National Defense had power to take over all communications. Forbidden was any "adverse or unfavorable statement . . . likely to prejudice the defense of Canada" or prosecution of the war. Even weather reports were no longer published...