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...Beer. Sherwood had been promised there would be no censorship ("Unless, of course, I loaded the script with four-letter words"). NBC went even further: Sherwood got free run of the set, and the actors (Thomas Mitchell, Wendell Corey, Yvonne de Carlo, Gene Lockhart) were to listen to and obey all his instructions. Sighed Sherwood: "If it's a flop, it's my own damn fault...
...Foreign Minister Robert Schuman: "In a democracy without authority, everything goes adrift: Parliament, government, administration. We no longer respect each other enough to recognize the superiority of others. We know not how to command nor to obey...
...police lectured their fathers in vain. Once, after the boys broke into an auto-parts store, County Judge George Roane summoned the fathers before him and demanded that they make their sons obey. The fathers shrugged, and the boys carried on as usual. They broke into the Greyhound Bus station, later cracked a food market for candy and change. It was then that Judge Roane decided to invoke a new law. "We decided to try the parents," says he, "not the children...
...marriage had been "unlawful" because she had been married briefly to his dead brother, she retorted that this would be "to confess to having been the King's harlot this 24 years." After Henry broke with the Roman Catholic Church and married Anne Boleyn, Katherine instructed adolescent Mary: "[Obey] the King your father in everything, save only that you will not offend God and lose your own soul...
...commander of the 148 said that the remainder who would come out in the next three or four weeks were the real core of the fighting men, who still felt bound to obey Formosa's orders. (Chiang Kai-shek's government has agreed to outlaw any who refuse to leave.) Spry, 70-year-old William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, wartime chief of the OSS and now U.S. Ambassador to Siam, was on hand for the first processing in the jungle. "I wouldn't have missed this for anything," said Wild Bill...