Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superior of the Catholic Missionary Society, mission teams are paying flying visits to 1,700 Catholic parishes in England and Wales. In each of them missionaries stay from one to three weeks, visiting every Catholic in the area, holding church services twice daily. Father Heenan advises his missionaries never to complain to parishioners about lack of attendance. Says he: "A church that is half empty is half full...
...basement bar of the Hotel Scribe, Parisian headquarters for the Allied press corps during World War II, TIME & LIFE Correspondent Noel F. Busch met another TIME correspondent. A newcomer, hired overseas, he had never even seen his home office and he was curious about it. How, he asked Busch over a drink, had TIME ever begun, anyway...
...Undercover Man (Columbia) is another hare & hounds episode produced with the help of U.S. Government files. The hare in this instance is a character called "The Big Fellow" who never appears on the screen, but who seems to be modeled on the late Al Capone. Heading the hounds is Glenn Ford as a Government T-man who is out to nail The Big Fellow on a $3,000,000 tax-evasion...
Quibbling Oldsters. Aubrey loved the medieval manor house, half dwelling, half barnyard, where the cackling and lowing of livestock were "then thought not . . . ill musique." But, unlike most antiquarians, he never allowed nostalgia to blind him to the bad aspects of the good old days: "The conversation and habits of those times were as starcht as their bands and square beards; and gravity was then taken for wisdom. The doctors in those days were but old boys, when quibbles past for wit even in their sermons...
Harvard, rowing into a stiff headwind that held down all the times, was never ahead despite a strong sprint bid during the last half-mile of the mile and five-sixteenths Henley distance. The Crimson's time was 7:42.4, almost five seconds slower than Princeton...