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...This Lent a pocket-sized book, a simplified collection of Christ's words, has reappeared.* The Complete Sayings of Jesus (John C. Winston Co.; $1) claims to be the first attempt to extract the sayings of Christ-with chronological notes and just enough of the Biblical context to bridge the transition between Christ's sayings. Its purpose: "With the world in flames, a little book which makes it possible to read in two short hours every recorded word Christ ever spoke is a vital contribution toward what our people need, want and are receptive to right...
...girls, never really convinced by live-alone-and-like-it books, seemed to have decided that a soldier-husband for a few days was better than no husband at all. An alltime high was set this year in Lent weddings, which usually show a drop...
...prayers in his cabin at these hours. Says Morison: "A decent formality has always been observed aboard ships at sea, even to our own day . . . any departure from the settled custom is resented by mariners. In Columbus' ships these formalities were observed with a quasi-religious ritual, which lent them a certain beauty...
Carole Lombard was in a hurry to get home. For days the movies' best screwball comedienne had been traveling crosscountry patriotically, plugging defense bonds. In Indianapolis she had lent a hand at flag-raisings, jampacked the city's big Cadle Tabernacle for a rally, where she led The Star-Spangled Banner. The blonde actress-who had often said she was glad she was not beautiful-in one day raised $2,000,000. Indianapolis called her Defense Bond Saleslady No. 1. Said plain-spoken Miss Lombard: "I'm like the barker at a carnival...
...company headed by the New York Herald Tribune's ex-treasurer Robert Cresswell. Since then the Ledger had lost around $825,000. It died for lack of a fresh $500,000. The Curtis trustees, tired of throwing good money after bad-they claimed they had already lent Publisher Cresswell's company $1,075,000-intimated that the death of the Ledger was a mercy...