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...from Corsica. But after getting into trouble over his other line of business-lewd films-the Corsican had fled Paris. The powers of the milieu had no objection to young Bill's taking over where the Corsican left off. For the next 18 months, as Dominique's "protector," Bill got a slice of her earnings in addition to the $300 a month his parents gave...
Dominique was given to making salades (trouble), to pouring into slot machines money that should have gone to Bill, even to talking of giving up her trade altogether. Among the more code-conscious of Paris' 9,000 prostitutes, the penalty for deserting a protector is severe: it can mean a 500,000-franc fine, underworld-enforced, or even the lifelong scar of the dreaded croix des vaches, a deep cross carved into the doxy's forehead. Bill had even more grandiose ideas of the code of the caïd. When Dominique told him that she could...
...modern Calvinism the stringencies of his teaching have been much modified -notably his doctrine of election, the role of civil authority as protector of the church, and the word-splitting intolerance of other Protestant doctrines. Today the churches of the Calvinist tradition are newly sensitive to the need for a united Protestantism. In an "Address to our Fellow Christians after 400 Years." 31 Calvinist leaders in Europe, Asia. Africa and the U.S. last week called for a new unity among the churches...
...handsome beyond compare, a superintendent of the Sunday school, and gives the devotion of a medieval knight to his chronically sick wife. His son Philip is a senior in high school and is, if anything, a cut above the old block-handsome, kind, courteous, his mother's protector, his school's hero and his minister's pride. Even old Colonel Merriam, his father's boss, sees the boy's virtues, and it seems not unlikely that Philip will cut through social barriers and marry the old man's lovely, city-educated granddaughter. His valedictorian...
Morand said that De Gaulle (whose titles as President of France include that of Protector of the Academy) had asked him through intermediaries to postpone "a candidacy that, at present, still provokes too much partisan hatred." What really decided Morand, said Paris gossip, was the warning that De Gaulle would not receive him, if and when it came time for Morand to make the newly elected academician's traditional call on the President of the Republic...