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...white-haired old party named Jack Alonzo Goldie got into a Chinese robe at Rockport, Mass. last week, put a black band around his head and announced that 1) he was The Zoom, and 2) that an H-bomb was going to blow the world up on April 7, 1954. He asked one & all to become Zoomites, and join him in burrowing underground. Father Divine took a different attitude. He claimed that he was responsible for the bomb, through some kind of telepathic influence on President Truman, and that it was a fine thing. His exact words: "Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful...
GREAT BRITAIN Whistle in the Dark In the state coach that Queen Victoria got in Ireland, King George VI this week rode to Westminster, put on his robes of state (an ermine cape, a robe of purple velvet over a military uniform), and formally opened Britain's most evenly divided Parliament in 40 years. The King walked slowly into the House of Lords, his head held stiffly under the weight of the heavy (2½-Ibs.), jeweled crown of state. Queen Elizabeth, impressive in gold-embroidered white satin and pearls, walked by his side, her white-gloved left hand...
Talk of the United States world of large cities, department stores, and universities where thousands of students live together brings large smiles to the Gegen's face. His friends, the Lattimores, tell of interesting experiences when the Gegen, in his ornate, heavy silk Oriental robe, enters the large New York emporiums...
...confusion as to just who this reseal is Miss O'Hara, who answers, to the title of Princess Mah Jongg, has her sights set on the wrong fellow (Paul Christian) for some time while palling around with the pasha and military governor of Bagdad (Vincent Price). When the Black Robe boss turns out to be somebody else (John Sutton), Christian gets the Princess and Sutton and Price get theirs...
Novelist Lloyd C. Douglas, 72, told a Boston interviewer that he was staunchly opposed to change and that he tried to get that idea across in books like The Robe and The Big Fisherman. "I have only one theme," he said. "All authors have only one theme, though few will admit it. My theme, it happens, people like, because they long to stay...