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...What grist for the Protestant scandalmongers' mill! Everything that American Catholicism has stood for-separation of church and state, freedom of religion, a non-temporal clergy-is endangered by the stupid, archaic and "dog-in-the-manger" mouthings of these modern-day Savonarolas. This sort of thing is precisely what makes Protestants turn green at the gills and red in the face...
Spies & Vanishing Briefcases. For decades the Orient Express served as grist for the mills of novelists (e.g., Agatha Christie, Graham Greene, Eric Ambler), who conjured up (a) fur-wrapped beauties from Hungary in conspiratorial conversation with spies in the corridor, (b) muffled sobs in the next compartment, or (c) vanishing briefcases. The only things that ever really vanished were the good service and the passengers. By the 1920s most of the lush old cars had been replaced with stern steel models, and the porters wore drab brown, offering special attention only when the palm was well greased with hard currency...
...American Protestants have staged their own Inquisition, Texas style, Houston 1960: about 300 brave, "patriotic" Protestant ministers ganged up on one lone Catholic, Senator Kennedy. Bravo, America! What grist for the mill, presented on a silver platter to Mr. Khrushchev on his arrival...
Andover, N.J., Grist Mill Playhouse: Betsy Palmer in a new play by Lesley Storm, Roar Like a Dove...
Windfall? In Topeka, Kans., after spading a hole in his backyard for use as a tornado hideaway, Grist Haydon was visited by a deputy tax assessor, who placed a value of $150 on the diggings...