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...party roared into Hertogenwald forest on what the palace called an "incognito" hunting trip. A squadron of beaters managed to maneuver one wild boar within six yards of the nearsighted King, who scored a clean miss. The tally at the end of the hunt: three wild boar, one hind. The King's bag: nothing...
...point. Griffiths was driving the lion around in his car. its front paws on the front seat, hind legs on the back seat and head out the window. When blase Californians refused to look twice at what they thought was a stuffed lion, Griffiths nonchalantly poked the beast, elicited a pained roar and horrified attention from passersby...
...what has emerged from these seven years since the end of the war, we shudder to think of what the next seven years will have to offer . . . We cannot put the blame on transatlantic enthusiasm: enthusiasm is a good thing anywhere, and if the American can talk the hind legs off an English donkey, it is the donkey's fault. The trouble, we think, is not that Columbus went too far . . . On the contrary, it is that we permit this influence, however well-intentioned, to encroach too much upon the English preserve. It is a sad reflection...
...consistent support of Papal Nuncio Egidi Vagnozzi, a brisk, 46-year-old Italia whose plain speaking long ago got him th nickname of "II Americano" in Vatica circles. Since his arrival 2½-years ago Archbishop Vagnozzi has given heavy be hind-the-scenes support to the efforts of Roman Catholics like Philadelphian He gan to give Filipinos a fresh deal before the Communists do. He has also strengthened the position of his church's native hierarchy, historically dominated by non Filipinos, chiefly Spaniards. Three Filipino bishops have been raised to-arch bishop since Vagnozzi arrived...
...most famous widow, Mrs. Roosevelt has hardly been still a moment : kind, literal, awesomely helpful and endlessly patient, she has trotted up & down the stairways of the world, year after year - straightening its curtains, eying its plumbing, and occasionally admonishing the landlords of those political slums be hind the Iron Curtain, in sharp but hope ful tones. Sense & Sensibility. Her own country men are divided on the question of wheth er or not Mrs. Roosevelt is a woman of sense; but even the hardest-shelled Republican or deepest-Southern Democrat would probably agree (with oaths) that she is a woman...