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...Defense. In July 1948, when Harry Truman ordered "equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons" in the services, few believed it any more than a pious declaration which would be just as piously sabotaged. But after 22 months, what the President's committee had to report amounted to the greatest change in service custom since the abandonment of the cat-o'-nine-tails...
...seem old enough either in voice or make-up. His performance, however, in the puppet scene was delightfully witty. Richard Heffron was hilarious as the pulsive suitor, and Roger Butler as the youthful sympathiser of the shoemaker's wife was highly amusing. The chorus of "over-pious women" and neighbors, who periodically pass by the window of the shoemaker's house to pass moral judgement, was extremely humorous...
Captain Jones is converted during the course of the voyage to a more pious point of view than is held by the usual man of the sea. Gebler tells of this conversion with admirable lack of bathos, at the same time conveying the force of the event. The conversion, incidentally, is achieved by the presence of Priscilla Mullins, she of "speak for yourself, John" fame, who appears one night in the captain's cabin and displays a touching naivete that softens the old rotter's heart...
...kept in the Kumbh (holy urn). They fought a full-scale war with the demons for possession of the Kumbh, and won. As the angels flew triumphantly to heaven with the urn, four drops of nectar fell to the ground from the vessel. Where the drops formed pools, every pious Hindu who bathes may end his earthly cycle of births and deaths, and release his soul into union with God. Best time to bathe is Kumbh-mela (Urn Festival), which occurs once every twelve years in each of the four cities where the drops fell. Last month, it was Kumbh...
...Henry's well-known paramour), whose famous hardships in a bower have inspired romantic writers for ages, gets only cold glances from the author. The story of the jealous queen's proffer of the dagger and poison bowl is discarded; for Rosamond, "flower of the world," died young in pious retirement. Still, Miss Kelly captures both the glitter and the solidity of the Middle Ages...