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...desert near Assiut, rebelled because they received only $1.50 per month for pocket money. Bearded Auba Yoanes XIX, Patriarch of Egypt's ancient Coptic Church, excommunicated the seven, then pardoned them while their abbot raised their allowance to $7.50 per month. On this the monks grew merrier & merrier, saving up their money for uproarious nights in nearby Bedouin and Moslem villages. Such a nuisance became the Copts that the villagers told Abbot Sidarous to keep his men at home, else they would be shot...
...glad to buy cheap. Russia's present or Second Five-Year-Plan was to use the Economic Base established by the First Five-Year-Plan to make what Russians personally want and Joseph Stalin has plastered the country with slogans reading: "Life is getting better! Life is getting merrier!" Last week the Soviet official chiefly responsible for fulfilling the current plan, Commissar of Light Industry I. E. Lubimov, got sore...
...carry more than her just share of At Home Abroad, Comedienne Lillie demonstrates the full extent of her resource and range by thrice repeating, with unimportant changes of scene and material, her most famed characterization: the ludicrous femme fatale. First a Parisian music hall favorite ("l'amour, the merrier"), then a temperamental ballerina with painful recollections of her flight from Russia ("You can't teach an old dog new treks"), she tops the lot as a light lady of Vienna with this lyrical self-analysis...
...Exposition grounds last week. Mrs. Latorra keeps two washing machines going for the laundry of the children who live in the 14-room house Mike Latorra built by himself. Said he last week: "If you keep your head up and everybody pulls together, why, the more the merrier and the better chance you've got to get along...
...leader of the merrier element was James Leary Flood. In his blood was an instinct for the fleshpots; in his bank, money for it. His father was James Clair ("Bonanza King") Flood, onetime saloon keeper, later owner of the Comstock Lode with William S. O'Brien, James...