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...must profess to be "a Christian by conviction" before he can ever be admitted to membership in a Baptist church...
...casting Canada Lee in the debasing role of Caliban. Miss Webster has invited the criticism of all who profess an interest in the race question. The choice of a Negro for the role of the misshapen monster, half-human and servile, suggests sinister implications. Lee, however, said during a backstage interview that he has attempted to play down all social connotations in his part, and that he feels genuinely honored to follow in the footsteps of Sir Herbert Tree and other English actors who have played Caliban...
...findings in general, Louisville Courier-Journal's Publisher Mark Ethridge concluded: "A complete denial of the democratic process and a complete humiliation of all people who profess any faith in democracy...
From the lines at Patras, the New York Times's A. C. Sedgwick wrote: "The E.L.A.S. holds sway through force of arms. . . . Undoubtedly there are many in the E.L.A.S. who are hardly conscious of the aims of the party's innermost core, but those who profess to know them see endless complications in store from a new type of tyranny that, they say, has already been manifested. Some say that the people suffered as much from the excesses of the E.L.A.S. in browbeating them into Communism as from the Germans...
Sirs: ... I am interested in the young lady with the phenomenal teeth [TIME, July 17]. Though I do not profess to know what Dr. Barker might mean by "all the specifications,'' I do know that my teeth seem to be nearly perfect, and are considered quite unusual by my dentist. Contrary to the experience of Miss Price, however, I have always liked candy, ice cream, pie, and fruit, and have consumed plenty in my lifetime! IDA D. RICHARDS...