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...would look fine on soda jerks. Best-looking of the lot were the dress blues with battle jacket and overseas cap-although they were still not up to the crisp splendor of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, wartime COMINCH and Chief of Naval Operations, who-looking like an embossed pillar of naval majesty surmounted by scrambled eggs-was named last week by Apparel Arts as the best-dressed sailor...
...modern eye, St. Simeon Stylites is likely to seem a kind of 5th-Century Shipwreck Kelly*-a symbol of ascetic reductio ad absurdum. To that view, his 38-year residence atop a pillar was only a Syrian sideshow that attracted the curious. The vulgar error of a vulgar age, says Father Augustin C. Wand, S.J., in the current American Ecclesiastical Review. "Simeon the Stylite is not a character about whom we Catholics need to be apologetic...
Actually, the Courier is far from being what the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette was in William Allen White's prime. But it is a representative, small U.S. daily; a successful, homely, friendly pillar of the community...
...rode near and far, high and low, along bypaths and by-ways- for speedily a tale is spun, but with less speed a deed is done- until he came to a wide, open field, a green meadow. And there in the field stood a pillar, and on the pillar these words were written : 'Whosoever goes from this pillar on the road straight before him will be cold and hungry. Whosoever goes to the right side will be safe and sound, but his horse will be killed.'" What happened when Prince Ivan turned to the right, his adventures with...
...things happen. Morse says he got the idea for One Man's Family from reading Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga. Family is as prettied-up a picture of American life as the neat colonial homes in the ads. A Pocatello, Idaho judge has described the program as "the pillar of the American way of life." It has been a pillar to Carlton Morse too, bringing him more than 20 radio awards of high & low value, and grossing an estimated...