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...dragged through the door asking for just a little more time. Mussolini (to his executioner): "But . . . but . . . Mr. Colonel." Pope Alexander VI: "I come. It is right. Wait a moment." When a parson told Ethan Allen (a religious man who took Fort Ticonderoga "in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress") that the angels were waiting for him, Allen exploded: "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, God damn 'em, let 'em wait...
...English language (above, dove, glove, shove). But while he can be shamelessly obvious, more often Porter is so dazzlingly dexterous that all the Tin Pan Alleycats bristle with awe. Nobody is cozier with words: for him, Winchell rhymes with provincial, suburban with Deanna Durbin, Nina with schizophrenia. Jehovah with Casanova, Lassie with democrassy, to the bottom I with hippopotami, a fine finnan haddie with my heart belongs to daddy, and Venetia who loved to chat so is still drinkin' in her stinkin' pink palazzo. There are images and characters in Porter that stick in the mind because...
Protestants contend that the official attitude "contravenes the principles of religious liberty." Colombians often reply that the mainland Protestant missionaries, notably the bell-ringing Jehovah's Witnesses, start the trouble by being offensively aggressive in 100% Catholic areas. But that argument hardly applied to the islands, where last week 600 Protestant children had no classrooms to go to except in a few crowded government schools taught by Capuchin friars...
...Jehovah's Witnesses lay claim to draft exemption on the ground that they are ministers. Last week the U.S. Supreme court backed up one of them in a 6-to-3 decision. What applied to George Lewis Dickinson of Coalings, California, does not necessarily apply to all Witnesses. Justice Tom C. Clark carefully pointed out in his majority opinion, but neither should "a legitimate minister . . . be, for the purposes of the [Selective Service] Act, unfrocked simply because all members of his sect base an exemption claim on the dogma of his faith...
...eight-day convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in New York City broke two Witness records for: 1) mass baptism, with 4,640 new members immersed in five hours; 2) assembly attendance, with some 116,802 packed in and around Yankee Stadium, and another 49,027 in a tent-and-trailer camp across the river in New Jersey...