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...plan for a Central Business District is not quite so far along though we have already entered the early land-acquisition and construction stage. The Project will be carried on in stages and will endeavor to put some order into the mish-mash of narrow streets which we inherited from our forebears...
...oldest part is the Mish nah, or Teaching, a selection of the Oral Law as taught by synagogue sages and compiled by Rabbi Judah Hanasi at the end of the 2nd century. The rabbi divided this oral teaching into six main divisions called "orders," covering agriculture, festivals, marriage, civil and criminal laws, sacrifices, and ritual purification. In the 4th century, another great editor, Rav Ashi, began to compile the Gemara (study), or commentaries on the Mishnah by later rabbis. His work was completed by Jewish scholars in Persia during the 5th century and is known as the Babylonian Talmud...
...glittering delegation from the baseball and entertainment worlds affectionately paid homage on NBC-TV to the matriarch of the U.S. theater, Actress Ethel Barrymore, 78. The tasteful mish-maash of misty-eyed reminiscence deeply affected Actress Barrymore. She got a warm message from Sir Winston Churchill, orated by Cinemactor David Niven. Day before the show, inveterate Baseball Fan Barrymore, taking it easy in a wheelchair during tiring rehearsals, batted the breeze with Daughter Ethel Barrymore Colt and some diamond luminaries who later took part in the TV salute-Los Angeles Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella, NBC Sport Consultant...
...Handed. In Detroit, Lawrence Mish was nabbed for turning in a false alarm from a newly painted fire box when a fireman spotted him trying to wipe red paint off his hands...
Plotwise, Kerr gets Taylor, Taylor gets religion, the mob gets Nero, and the audience gets restless. How Metro could spend so much money on "Quo Vadis" and come up with such a mish-mosh of didactic dullness will of course remain one of the great mysteries of our time. Never have so many paid so much to see so little...