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From the Presbyterians themselves-who, though they might have considered themselves tentatively invited, had not actually rung the Episcopal doorbell-no comment...
...name: "Palship." One day, goodhearted Bill discovered a tuberculous Polish girl in a burlesque house, got her the leading role in a movie. She played it like the great actress she had always pined to be-and then collapsed. "Bill," she gasped, "have the bells [of my home town] rung for pop-and me. . . . [And] some little girls with white paper wings ... to stand by my coffin." Then she passed away-to the heavenly studio of "the Great Producer...
...City. Arab merchants, sitting cross-legged on bolts of cloth, still tried to entice customers in the bazaars of King David's Street. But the vendors were wary and sharp-eyed. Any sudden movement of police or soldiers was likely to bring the clang of rung-down iron shutters, a scurrying for cover. For in Jerusalem (or Haifa or Tel-Aviv or Jaffa) sudden action might mean an exchange of shots. "It is our worst year," said one Arab. "There is no spirit for Ramadan...
Replied Bidault: "I did not ring the bell. It was rung by article 62 of our rules of procedure." The delegates, who had had little to laugh about, laughed...
...Kuling's main street a large poster-portrait of himself, subscribed: "Welcome General Marshall, Most Honored Angel of Peace." That night in Chiang's guest cottage, General Marshall slept in a bed seven feet long and five feet wide. The Kuling correspondent of Ta Rung Pao, Shanghai's independent newspaper, reported this fact to his readers, then asked: "Why is the bed so wide?" The correspondent supplied his own answer: "It's hard to be a mediator -he's expected to spend sleepless nights tossing about...