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London, a lantern-jawed former British champ with over 20 pounds weight advantage, is regarded so lightly that odds against him have been quoted...
...compensation for the widow. Instead, Meg faces only a set of sad second choices-social work, the society of Angry Young Men, bohemian sex. While Author Wilson unfolds a kind of serial on the theme of "Which Weeds Will the Widow Wear?" he also presents a series of sharp, lantern-slide portraits of modern England...
...Island Lantern, monthly magazine of the U.S. penitentiary at McNeil Island, Wash., was once a week late because of heavy fog: staffers were denied access to a remote warehouse where cover stock was cut. On the Observer, biweekly paper at the California State Prison at Folsom, reporters must be checked through as many as four inside gates in chase of a story. San Quentin's News has not etched its own engravings in years-not since some handsome counterfeit currency was traced to the prison print shop...
...disciples rose quietly and loaded their meager belongings in a truck. Ninety minutes later, wearing a grandmotherly shawl over his dhoti, Bhave marched briskly out of the schoolhouse and headed straight down the village road at a brisk pace, looking neither to right nor left. A man with a lantern raced ahead of Bhave to light his way. Following after came some three dozen wraithlike women secretaries and husky disciples-including the barefoot son of a wealthy cotton-mill owner, a nephew of India's Finance Minister, and landowners who had joined Bhave after giving away their estates...
...warning, the unlisted phone numbers of dozens of church offices and institutions (including the archbishop's own residence) were published in the diocesan newspaper, the Pilot. Last week, when the press besieged him, and his flock exulted in the news of his appointment to the College of Cardinals, lantern-jawed Richard Gushing was still patiently answering the phone, "Archbishop Gushing," and trying to explain why he had no pictures of himself. "Pictures? What would I do with them...