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...Constellation headed north. In Copenhagen, Danes pridefully served their visitor some of their famed butter with his breakfast. But with a firm eye on his waistline he declined, insisted on dry toast, along with his caffeineless coffee (name: Kaffee Hag). Later, getting down to business, he was told that the 1,000-man Danish token force now in Germany would be placed under his command and enlarged to 4,000 men. Tactfully, he said: "Size has nothing to do with it . . . I have encountered nothing here but those things which have lifted up my heart...
...life, she loses them. But when her son gets in a jam, is threatened with death by the infuriated Amish townspeople, mother love triumphs. She saves him, is threatened with burning at the stake herself. Before that can happen, there is a flash of dazzling light and the ragged hag emerges in shining white, a new woman. She leaves the village for a new life with her son, and the wedding he has disrupted is rescheduled...
...London, bulky British Actor-Playwright Robert Morley, who picked up a few prizes on Broadway for his 1948 Edward, My Son, was in no mood to return the compliments. Said he at a dinner at the Theater Arts Club: "The New York theater is hag-ridden by directors. Scene painting is a lost art ... Walter Winchell and about five like him decide the tastes of the American 'people...
Although she was but 45 years old, Nukashook had about reached the end of her days. In the tiny village of Eelounaling on Boothia Peninsula, one of Canada's northernmost Eskimo settlements, children regarded her as a cross and ugly old hag. The "spitting sickness" (tuberculosis) had long plagued her and her teeth were gone. One day last summer, while she lay coughing in her tepee, Nukashook called to Eeriykoot, her 21-year-old son. "I am suffering too much," she said. "Put up the rope so I may kill myself...
...jailed now & then by his father for drinking bouts, is now in retirement on a farm. The eighth son, Ibrahim, fled from Yemen to British Aden a year ago after an unsuccessful attempt to unseat his father. He gave up the title Sword of Islam, called himself Saif el Hag (Sword of Truth...