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...Steel Hour had a lighter and happier essay on the same theme of a family consuming its own, with a TV adaptation of the London and Broadway hit Edward, My Son. Britain's Robert Morley was superb as the oleaginous trickster who believes that nothing is too good for his son-or for himself, either-and is ready to burn down a building or buy up a school to prove...
...delegates to the 60th Congress of the National Association of Manufacturers in Manhattan last week could not have picked a happier time to gather...
...Though he was no opportunist, though he said what he thought whenever it was useful, he made few enemies. Many stood in awe of him because of his deft and pungent tongue, but apt as he was in attack or retort, Sherwood was readier still to give mercy, happier to be tolerant than to be angry...
...painting. As the nuns of the Little Company of Mary padded about him during the last decade of his life, he drew an appealing sketch of old age which also sums up much of his carefully Epicurean philosophy: "The charm I find in old age-for I was never happier than I am now-comes of having learned to live in the moment, and thereby in eternity; and this means recovering a perpetual youth, since nothing can be fresher than each day as it dawns and changes...
Late in the afternoon of May 23, 1430, a Burgundian archer in the service of the English captured a hard-fighting soldier of the King of France and took his prisoner back to camp. Had he captured half the French army, his commanders would have been no happier. Stripped of armor, the soldier was seen to be a handsome, well-knit girl of 18 with short-cropped dark hair. For Jeannette d'Arc of Domrémy, who had given Charles VII his throne and whipped his English enemies with astonishing consistency, there now began one of the classic...