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When he is not unmasking cruelty, Author Powers takes a Waughspish delight in lampooning vulgarity. The Presence of Grace is about a sociable young curate, Father Fabre, who unwittingly dignifies a liaison between one of his parishioners, Mrs. Mathers, and her non-Catholic paramour, Mr. Pint, by dining with them and Mr. Pint's daughter Velma. The high comic humors of the story and the evening revolve around an old-fashioned ice cream freezer...
...Phil took one look at the happy-go-lucky string bean with the outsize hands, and saw just what he was looking for. In the fall of 1952, Bill Russell began to attend classes at U.S.F., a small Jesuit school (2,500 students), and to practice basketball in the pint-sized St. Ignatius High School gym, where the Dons work out for want of a floor of their...
...part somewhat beyond the means of his talent, and manages at least to convince the spectator that half an oaf is better than none. As for Anna, nothing like her kind of corset farce has come out of Hollywood since the late Marie Dressier delicately tucked a pint of hooch in her grandmotherly bosom. One moment Actress Magnani comes lurching on-camera as shapeless as a burlap bag full of cantaloupes; the next she is sleazing through the dusk in black lace with the toothsome glitter of a backstreet-walker in Naples. And she battles her way into a girdle...
...Sight. In Memphis, after finishing his second pint of gin, Huel Jones accused his wife of hiding the third pint, wounded her in the side with a .22, ruefully told police: "She never hid that gin; I forgot I already drank...
...annual Red Cross fall blood drive ended yesterday afternoon with a total collection of 887 pints, the chairman of the drive announced last night. Donations fell short both of the 1000 pint goal and of last year's 1066 pint collection...