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...Portrait, a play by Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowen that ran for 14 weeks on Broadway in 1939 and for four weeks in London in 1948. Theme of the play: the hostility and lack of comprehension by Jesus' brothers to His mission. Britain's Bernard Cardinal Griffin lost no time in protesting that the play's assumption that Jesus had blood brothers "is contrary to sound scholarship and the belief of all Christian bodies." "Blasphemy," stormed the Catholic paper Universe. "Cast aside was the age-old belief of the Christian world in Our Lady...
...Lilly (drugs) have all found use for handicapped workers; electronic firms such as RCA, Western Electric, General Electric are using them to assemble delicate TV and radar circuits. At Lockheed's big plant at Marietta, Ga., the company last year saved $65,000 by employing a Griffin, Ga. workshop for the blind to pick over the factory sweepings, salvage thousands of tiny nuts, washers and screws that fell to the floor below its B-47 production line. On the record, handicapped workers are pulling their own weight in U.S. industry, and there are millions more who are willing...
Readers may also join the lively game that Translator White plays among the footnotes and try to puzzle out what animal, vegetable or mineral the Middle Ages mistook for unicorn, dragon, griffin, basilisk, etc. White guesses that the poison-breathing basilisk was very likely the cobra, but thinks the griffin was strictly mythological, in fact "something of a Hieroglyphin...
...bleak, chilly day last week, as Samuel Marvin Griffin was inaugurated as the 72nd governor of Georgia, the Capitol flags flew at half-staff, in mourning for Georgia's 60th governor, John M. Slaton, who had died in the fullness of his 89th year just nine hours before the inauguration. Slaton's death recalled a story of rare political courage...
...Aste home and continued to argue about the price until Aste, looking at his watch, said coldly, "You have two minutes to make up your mind, Mr. Whitney." At noon sharp, Whitney bought the horse, paying $50,000 in crisp new $1,000 bills, which helped to build the Griffin Co. Shipped to England for the Derby, Nasturtium failed...