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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leger became the only lady Free Mason. The popular story is that she hid in a clock, her family says she happened to fall asleep on a couch; anyhow, whether by design or accident, she overheard what the Free Masons were saying, so they made her one of their number. In her portrait the lady . . . has a dogged, impassible face [see cut]. I support the idea of the clock...
More than 315,000 poll-taxed Virginians-a record number, though still only a tenth of the state's population-turned out on Primary Day to choose the Democrat who will be the state's next governor. Their choice: plodding, poker-faced John S. Battle, the man U.S. Senator Byrd picked to keep his 25-year-old organization in the Richmond State House...
Many sections of the nation reported the number of polio victims rising rapidly. The U.S. Public Health Service (which tabulates its annual statistics from the third week of March, when cases are fewest) listed a total of 5,415 in the current "polio year," against 4,230 in the same period of 1948. But P.H.S. still insisted that the disease was epidemic only in some areas-Arkansas, Indiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Southern California...
...formula used in Everything is one way of doubling and tripling the number and variety of songs and dances in a movie without having to worry about whether they fit into the plot. With good enough air-cooling in neighborhood thea ters, it could also triple the summer till...
...Irish clergy, he thinks, have appeared not to reciprocate the people's regard. In explanation, he offers the fact that the Catholic seminary, established at Maynooth in 1795, was staffed by a number of French professors fleeing the terror of the French Revolution. O'Faolain concludes that their influence stamped generations of Irish priests with distrust of any rebellion against authority. Since the Irish themselves were incorrigibly rebellious, the odd end result, O'Faolain thinks, is "a permanent and positive clerical antipathy to the laity...