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...supremely bilked by the wiles of a perfumed woman. Mrs. Doraine Van Roos DuPont Liebson, he complained, had led him to believe, during six delightfully dazed months of courtship, that "she was a maiden of 26." But after the wedding last February, he discovered that she was nearer 48, that she had a married daughter-and two grandchildren...
Says Commonweal Editor Edward Skillin: "We believe the point of view we have in social and political matters is much nearer and truer to the Catholic social ideals-one which more fully expresses the Catholic view of the world-than that of some of the more conservative Catholic publications...
Like most magazines of opinion, blunt-speaking Commonweal has always had hard sledding. For three years (1943-45), it managed to break even. But it has never been nearer folding than now-not even in 1938 when, unlike most Catholic journals, it refused to support Franco and thus lost almost a fourth of its readers...
...were complete: Jimmy would be driven off to the cemetery with the Dixieland quartet leading the way. On the way and at the grave, the boys would play High Society, Muskrat Ramble, Jazz Me Blues, and anything else they thought Jimmy might like. But they would finish up with Nearer, My God, to Thee, in hymn tempo. That was Mama's idea...
...last week, Captain Rickover's task was a lot nearer completion than either the Navy or the tight-lipped Atomic Energy Commission would admit officially. The Pentagon released a curt, one-sentence statement saying that it had awarded a contract for an atomic sub to the Electric Boat Co. of Groton, Conn. "From now on," said an AEC director, "you can gauge our progress by the increase in vagueness of our reports...