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...largest doll manufacturer on the West Coast is a copper-haired, blue-eyed, thirtyish San Franciscan named Nancy Ann Abbott, who had intended to be a movie star. Last week Miss Abbott sat in unaccustomed peace in her blue-carpeted studio-office: by her orders all the telephone lines that connect Nancy Ann Dressed Dolls Inc. with the world had been disconnected. Her reason: "When that phone rings it means trouble...
Saroyan shapes such moments in words of almost primer lucidity. Among his still-pursuing faults are glints of Tarkingtonian facetiousness, sometimes boring and unreal sententiousness, excessive sentiment. His essential limitation-which is also his cardinal virtue-is perhaps incurable. That is his chronic ecstasy, his almost Franciscan loving kindness and optimism. It clearly transfigures the world for him and, for a time, is bound to. transfigure any sympathetic reader. Saroyan is one of the few contemporary writers who can articulate, in terms of common life, the indispensable text, Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall...
...properties, including those of 13 Catholic orders. Here the issue is not merely one of taxing church-owned properties that are used for commercial activities. The reasons given for taxing them have been that the land owned by certain religious institutions is in "excess" of their needs, that a Franciscan monastery is not actually used as a church (though daily Masses open to the public are said in it), that other properties (including seminaries) are not entitled to exemption as educational institutions...
...17th-Century Italian Franciscan is rapidly becoming the patron saint for Allied airmen. He is St. Joseph of Cupertino, who from his eighth year was subject to ecstatic visions. "Frequently," says the Catholic Encyclopedia, "he would be raised from his feet and remain suspended in the air." Hence his designation as the protector of flyers, who now wear his medal on two continents...
Thus, from Aztec hearsay, a 16th-century Franciscan friar described the legendary city of Tulsa, capital of Mexico's ancient Toltec empire and once ruled by the bearded emperor Quetzalcoatl...