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...late-show watchers remember Spencer Tracy's bravura portrayal of Clarence Darrow and Fredric March's performance as William Jennings Bryan in the movie Inherit the Wind, a reenactment of the 1925 Scopes "monkey trial." That classic courtroom confrontation seemed to come from another era, a benighted past when a 24-year-old substitute biology teacher named John T. Scopes was actually indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee schoolroom. But that era was not so distant after...
...things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you." In Simons' view, the obviously personal meaning of the word remembrance "makes the words applicable only to the Apostles." Nor is there any hint in the Bible, Simons claims, that the Apostles' successors would inherit more than ordinary providential assistance in interpreting what the Apostles themselves witnessed...
...Beautiful People and showing his clothes, Saint Laurent picked people, decided to keep the 8,000 imported garments off the racks and out of sight for the opening. Nobody minded. For at the age of 32, Saint Laurent is a celebrity's celebrity. Tapped eleven years ago to inherit the mantle of Dior, he scored such a smash hit with his first collection, featuring his trapeze line, that crowds gathered outside the Dior headquarters on Paris' Avenue Montaigne, crying "Au balcon!" until he emerged on the balcony to wave. Branching out under his own name, he scored again...
...Soon after the two women met in Charlottesville, Va., they began reminiscing. Twice Anna called Maria by her pet name, "Mara." No matter what others may think, Maria says she is convinced that Anna is the real Anastasia. If Anna can eventually convince the German courts, she stands to inherit some $12.5 million of the Romanov fortune...
Besides the 26 South Dakota delegate votes, McGovern will doubtless inherit a number of the more than 300 primary delegate votes that Kennedy had amassed before his death...