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...notes during one of her stadium intermission talks, she an nounced that the coming attraction would be "Ezio Pinza Bass," and then added over the roars of laughter: "Oh no, that can't be right; that's the name of a fish." She has been known to refer to H.M.S. Pina fore as "everybody's favorite by Gilbert and Solomon," or to announce that "Rodger Hammerstein personally will conduct a number from South Pacific." To anybody familiar with her ways, it is per fectly obvious that when she announces a performance of "that wonderful concerto...
Your May 16 issue states that the United Fruit Co. is operating an agricultural school in Honduras. Although the institution you refer to (Escuela Agricola Panamericana) was established by the United Fruit Co. and has received endowment and continuing support from the company, it is now a completely independent institution...
Dawn, a floozy-looking blonde yawning furiously at the new day, was the first piece of sculpture he ever exhibited, but 25 years passed before he could afford to have it cast in bronze. Yet Robus never lost his humor. He himself would refer to his graceful sculpture of a girl washing her hair as Soap in Her Eyes. He did Three Caryatids Without a Portico, a Water Carrier with a pitcher for a head ("Just a jughead, I guess"), and "a vase that takes its head off." Hugo Robus' figures have a fluid charm that makes them bend...
...Paul turned on the man and denounced him so eloquently that Proconsul Paulus was converted, and his magician, according to Acts, went blind. After that encounter, Paul seems to have changed his name to its Roman form and become leader of the mission; the author of Acts begins to refer to Paul and Barnabas, instead of Barnabas and Saul...
...human being-a fellow child of God-moral? Can it be squared with the letter or the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount? Is it possible that Christ himself would approve? If anyone can honestly say yes, then he either misconceives the Christian ethic or I can refer him to a better and more sublime...