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...ways the saints lived are even more astonishing than the ways they died. Margaret of Hungary was born a princess, but she chose to minister to the sick in ways that Attwater describes as "menial, repulsive, exhausting and insanitary." Her imitation of the lives of the poor was so squalidly real that at times her fellow nuns shrank from contact with her. She ate almost nothing, slept hardly at all and died in 1270 at 28. St. Benedict Labre was another dirty saint who spent most of his life tramping from shrine to shrine throughout 18th century Europe, sleeping...
...making the film, Disney not only stuck fairly close to the facts but was even courageous enough to dispense with a love story. About the only women in sight are relegated to such menial jobs as waiting on table. Sturdy Fess (Davy Crockett) Parker trades in his coonskin cap for a felt hat as the federal spy; Jeffrey Hunter is the picture of keen-eyed implacability as the pursuing conductor; and a large group of native Georgians adequately re-create their Civil War ancestors. Since the raid involved a minimum of hand-to-hand fighting, Disney partially supplied the lack...
...issue has slowed the industrialization of the South. The chief reason is that industry is the most successful exponent of desegregation in the South, though Southerners are reluctant to admit it. From the steel mills of Birmingham to the docks of New Orleans, the Negro worker, once relegated to menial jobs and Jim Crow unions, is moving steadily across the color bar into skilled jobs and nonsegregated union locals...
...threes in the poorest sections of wherever they happen to be. One room is always consecrated as a chapel, and an extra bed is reserved for a homeless visitor. Their uniform is the dress of the poor with a brown cross pinned to it. Their work is the most menial labor available to support them...
Main interest must focus on James Mason who plays the role of British Ambassador's valet in neutral Turkey. Top secret minutes from the Teheran conference and plans for the Normandy invasion are stuffed in the Embassy's flimsy safe, and Mason knows the combination. Frustrated by his menial life, he photographs the documents and sells the film to the incredulous Nazis. While he amasses roughly two hundred thousand pounds in weekly installments, both Berlin and London bureaucrats are so mystified that they neither put the secret information to use, nor stop the security leak. And there is a woman...