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Died. Charles Langbridge Morgan, 64, English author of mystic-tinged novels (The Fountain, Sparkenbroke) and plays (The River Line, The Burning Glass), essayist (Liberties of the Mind) and longtime London Times drama critic (1926-39); of a bronchial ailment; in London...
...this child Jacobin dancing her version of the carmagnole in Versailles' Hall of Mirrors. With near-genius she manages to use Paris for the special and highly logical purposes that will occur to a little girl's mind. There is the chance to go swimming in the fountain of the Place de la Concorde, to sit at Fouquet's and wash one's feet with soda water (like T. S. Eliot's Mrs. Porter), or to turn that strange little porcelain convenience in the hotel bawthroom into a private swimming pool...
...capital of Rabat last week, a strapping black African sentry, resplendent in scarlet uniform, white puttees and black-tasseled bicorn, paced slowly back and forth in front of the brass-studded door that leads into Princess Lalla (Lady) Aisha's green-tiled villa. In the courtyard, a slender fountain tinkled in a garden dominated by four dome-shaped hibiscus bushes; from delicately wrought arbors came the sweet, heavy-bodied scent of flowering blue jasmine...
Aware that 65 million Americans had no professed church affiliation, Dr. Gockel aimed his nonsectarian show at "the great unchurched-they are our potential customers." The first shows were a serialized morality play about Druggist Carl Fisher of Middleburg, U.S.A., a sort of male Ma Perkins whose soda-fountain stools spun with ordinary people with ordinary problems. After 3½ years the synod elders decided that the Fisher family had come to be simply "busybodies snooping around the neighborhood hunting for something to stick their noses into." So Life abandoned the Fisher pharmacy for separate, self-contained dramatizations of modern...
...while the scantily clad guests danced, drank and listened to calypso. Then Tony Moynihan was put on "trial," found guilty of deserting his friends for Australia, and sentenced to a dunking in the fountain at Trafalgar Square...