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...says. "Someone called out. This way for girls who speak English.' 'Sure!' I told the man, 'my daughter speaks English. Don't you speak English, Sophia?' 'Sì, Mamma.' And we found ourselves in a room with lots of people and Mervyn LeRoy sitting in a chair. He said in English, 'Do you speak English?' And Sophia asked me in Italian what he was saying. They realized we were bluffing, but for our courage they gave us both jobs as extras in Quo Vadis...
...panel discussion following Chen's talk, Mervyn Jones, a British free-lance journalist, discussed the prevailing in English secondary education. Jones, a one-time candidate for Parliament on the Labor ticket, criticized the close correlation between public school attendance (3 per cent of the total of secondary school students) and access to positions of influence in business, industry, government, and the professions...
...choir chanted a somber psalm and middle-aged women prayed in silence, scarlet-hooded bishops cast Vicar Thomas out of the Church of England. They read from I Samuel ("And I will raise me up a faithful priest") and Matthew ("Beware of false prophets"). Then the Bishop of Southwark, Mervyn Stockwood, rose to pass final judgment: "By the authority committed to us by Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, we remove, depose and degrade William Bryn Thomas from all clerical offices...
...Rice Alforth Evelyn Harris, 72, has been quietly going his own Roman way at St. Andrew's for 33 years. But this spring he found himself with a new bishop and a peck of trouble. Southwark's Bishop Mervyn Stockwood (who caused a ripple of censure himself when he arrived in Southwark wearing a bow tie) heard of the popish goings-on at St. Andrew's and called Anglican Harris on the carpet. Yes, said the priest, he celebrated the Roman Mass instead of Anglican Communion (and included a prayer for the Pope as "Head...
...Australia is Kramer's happiest hunting ground. He is out to break the amateur game, and if the L.T.A.A. gives in to him now, he will succeed." Kramer bristled, "I would expect this kind of treatment only in Russia," added coals to the fire by signing Doubles Star Mervyn Rose, ranked No. 4 in Australia...