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...Penman, Sarah Braverman, as Anna Livia, and Ed Chamberlain and Jac Rogers in a variety of roles. Ken Donahue was entirely enjoyable as everyman H.C.E., although as a result of the adaptation his major function throughout much of the play was to sleep atop the coffin. Joseph Mitchell lent delicacy at appropriate moments in several parts, especially during the dream dramas of H. C. Earwicker which occupied most of the second half of the production, and which were in many ways the most purely entertaining part of the evening...
Another day, when he moved a motion for a public monument to his old Liberal friend, World War I Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Churchill spoke with such feeling that the House had the impression that he was applying the valediction to himself. "Pity and compassion lent [him] their powerful wings. He knew the terror with which old age threatened the toiler . . . He stood, when at his zenith, without a rival...
...attention to a book, purportedly written by Matusow, entitled False Witness. This court finds the fact to be that as early as Sept. 21, 1954, responsible officials of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers . . . subsidized the writing and publication of this book ... I find that Matusow willfully . . . lent himself to this evil scheme for money and for notoriety...
...policy amounts to appeasement of "coolies" (Indians) and "monkeys" (Africans). They blame their trouble on the faraway British Colonial Office, which they regard as a "nigger-loving" annex of the London School of Economics. Some of Minister Blundell's neighbors openly call him a traitor, because he lent his considerable prestige to a series of reforms that admitted one African and two Indians to the governor's cabinet. But when the question was put to the white settlers at Nakuru last week, Blundell got his vote...
...Officers of the U.S. Army's 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion, stationed near London, have decided to award a plaque bearing a painted devil to the company with the poorest record of church attendance during Lent, with orders that it be displayed prominently for two weeks. "We want to instill the fear of the Lord in all our troops," said the chaplain...