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...Australia Wand found U.S. influence stronger than British. He dressed like a U.S. Episcopal bishop except on formal occasions, when he donned gaiters and apron. Australians liked him for his warm friendliness and for his excellent preaching. His Oxford accent is quite intelligible. He has no prim ecclesiastical mannerisms. His sermons are pithy applications of the Christian faith to workaday life. Each Sunday evening thousands of Australians listened to him on the radio; other thousands read his weekly articles in the Brisbane Courier-Mail...
...libelous), the meeting was engineered by smooth, stocky Chicago lawyer William J. Grace, chairman of an organization now called the Citizens' U.S.A. Committee (formerly the Citizens' Keep America Out of War Committee). But Illinois' top-drawer Republicans, although mainly anti-Willkie, shunned the Mural Room, looked prim and pained. The Great Revival was off to a weak start...
Court tennis, the sport of kings, is almost as old as sport itself, but the game of tennis as played today is so young that one man's lifetime spans its entire history. Last week that man, prim old Bostonian Richard Dudley Sears, who helped establish the modern game of lawn tennis and was its first U.S. champion, died in Boston at 81. To Boston and Newport porch-sitters and nostalgic tennists everywhere, Dick Sears's death represented the end of an era of ruffles and parasols, roped-off lawns and sunny afternoons, lopsided tennis bats...
...strict attention to business and a devout policy of the less said the better. For decades its stockholder reports have been dull, stereotyped affairs with a peek at quarterly earnings; its reams of trade publicity have never given a hint of production, sales or industry position; its prim officers never discuss anything not already in print. The company's practical downtown Manhattan offices are pervaded by a churchlike decorum-everyone looks solemn, all men politely remove their hats when a girl gets into an elevator. Even at the annual Christmas parties no wine, liquor or horseplay is tolerated...
...come what may, Dorothy must have lessons. Dorothy got them at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, where she studied classical music for four years. The Conservatory's high-brow teachers tried, but they never could break Dorothy of her habit of making horrible faces while she played. Their prim five-finger exercises never could curb her habit of cutting loose in shoulder-shaking, canebrake improvisations (Dorothy finally wore out one piano). The Conservatory was never able to keep her percussive feet still either...