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...Usher Moren's "II Vecchio" is such a fine parody of Hemingway that it is a shame Mr. Moren intended it as a serious story. A situation in which three barbers mourn the fate of a fourth whom age has forced back to the last chair in the shop is a true parody of all Hemingway's aging bullfighters and fishermen, especially when Mr. Moren has someone say, "He is an old man and cuts well and it is truly a terrible thing...
...should also be pointed out that Hemingway's Italians spoke in this peculiarly stylized way because he gave a fairly literal translation from the Italian. As Mr. Moren's story takes place not in Italy but truly in another country, this seems not only out of place but incorrect. At least the barbers in the Harvard Barber Shop don't speak English that way--and I, for one, can't follow their Italian, infrequent...
Leading the group was Cadet Col. Daniel A. Kavanaugh. Others were: Douglas K. Boyd, Thomas Campbell, Sidney L. Cimmet, Robert J. Donahue, Carl A. Goldman, Richard E. Goldsmith, Michael Lay, John W. McNealy II, David W. Maher, Usher A. Moren, George M. Notter, Jr., Howard P. Smith, and Robert B. Stimpson...
Director of the Mission is grave, slow-smiling Dr. Jesse Moren Bader of the Federal Council of Churches. At Kansas City he laid down its blueprint: "The National Christian Mission . . . seeks to restore the inner resources of the nation through repentance, faith, devotion and responsible citizenship. ... The Mission is united in seeking a new world order of justice and peace. The Mission is united also in its belief that the democratic way of life, to which it is devoted, requires spiritual foundations...
...Thomson Kerr of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., the project cost $60,000 of which two-thirds was raised by local churches, the rest by private donations, John D. Rockefeller Jr. being put down for a modest contribution. With details of transportation handled by Secretary Jesse Moren Bader of the Federal Council's Department of Evangelism, the tour went off without mishap. Traveling simply by train and plane, members of Preaching Mission "teams" kept themselves physically fit by eschewing whatever social functions they might have been invited to, spiritually consecrated by dropping to their knees...