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...when the Japs evacuated school children; the intellectual shutdown occurred a generation ago. The Army is solving the textbook problem the direct way, by going into the printing business. Freedom of worship is back, too. Church bells ring on Sunday morning, and the other day the Most Reverend Paul Ro, Archbishop of Seoul, celebrated a solemn high mass of thanksgiving for liberation...
...liberated, and there are certain things you have to see. There were two ovens there, each with six openings. It was a clean room with no smell. At one end was a wash basin with soap still in the dish and a door leading to the "Büro or office. At the other was a plaque hung high on the wall, black with a symbolic flame painted on it and a quotation from some German poet: "Let not disgusting worms consume my body . . . give me the clean bright flame...
...story : the impoverished and wolfish Duke of Bristol (Clive Brook), his impoverished and meek friend Richard (Ro land Culver), a statuesque American pickle heiress (Googie Withers) enamored of the Duke, and a heartless, sporty widow named Mrs. Wislack (Beatrice Lillie) abandon London's high life for the widow's island shooting lodge in Scotland. Mrs. Wislack's shocking intention is to take cringing Richard for a month "on approval" before she decides whether to make an honest and rich...
...Helmericks soon found that the surly Yukon was no highway of ro mance. It carried "the silt of half a continent," and floating forests of trees and driftwood were a daily threat to the frail Queen Beaver. Arctic breezes whipped up icy waves that drenched the honeymooners to their skins. When they spent the night on a river island their down-lined sleeping bags were soon sodden with stagnant water...
...sermon after being enthroned as Archbishop of Westminster, Monsignor Bernard Griffin, Primate of English Ro-man Catholics, told the international congregation in jampacked Westminster Cathedral that easy divorce, birth control, books and films that sneer at the sanctity of marriage, are all signposts along the road to ruin. Said he: "The decline of a nation has always begun with the disintegration of the family...