Word: gabfest
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...Rhythm . Method?* Last week Servite Missionary Father Hugh Calkins, known to millions of U.S. Catholics for his columns in the weekly pamphlet Novena Notes, warned Catho-lies to be wary of it. In the current issue of Integrity Father Calkins goes to work on the "beauty-shop theologians and gabfest experts" who contend that Rhythm has the church's blessing...
...team mates than strong-arm Ralph Branca, the Dodgers' only 20-game winner. And of course there is Dixie Walker, the "Pee-pul's Cherce," who at 36 still hits when it will do the most good-with men on base. In a locker-room gabfest a few weeks ago, the Dodgers agreed among themselves that Jackie Robinson was the team's third most valuable player-behind Edwards and Reese...
...Britain's railway carriages, once almost as hushed as an Anglican church, were becoming regular gabfest resorts. In an editorial advocating "silence" compartments, the Times chattered: "It is possible for six people to travel together . . . without any . . . shattering conversational interlude. But there is no certainty, and all meditation . . . may be destroyed by the chance presence of a single chatterer. Indeed a journey often affords shocking examples of the horrors of loquacity...
Almost every Armistice Day surviving members of the Board and its staff go to New York for a meal and gabfest with their wartime chief. These men, who did the job once, have long been ready to do it over again, if called. But none of them was called to the War Resources Board (chairman: Ed Stettinius) last fall. Baruch himself has been consulted by the President in the current crisis, but not with any idea of giving him the job. If history repeats itself months may pass before industry, combed for "coming men," is given authority to get results...