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Only one group-64% of the private-school graduates-felt satisfied with the sex education they had received before coming to Colgate. (Walker was undecided whether to credit this attitude to better sex education in private schools-or blame it on "youthful naiveté.") Two older, sadder and presumably wiser groups-married men (100%) and ex-G.I.s (83%) -reported that they had not known enough answers to "meet [their] needs...
...delegates to Western Germany's "parliamentary council" were top politicians and union leaders who in the past had wanted nothing to do with a Western German government or the Western occupation authorities; most were grey survivors of concentration camps, or sadder & wiser leftovers from the Weimar Republic. Some were unknown men whose only distinction was that, under the Hitler regime, they had fought for freedom...
Overhead, Ruth Nichols. Sadder and bitterer for Evangeline was her rift with Bramwell Booth, who succeeded his father as General of the Army. When in 1922 it was announced in the press that he had ordered Evangeline to leave her phenomenally successful post as Commander in the U.S., a group of potent U.S. supporters of the Army sent a turkey-talking cable to the international headquarters in England. Bramwell was forced to retreat, and Evangeline stayed in the U.S. But General Bramwell was still a problem...
...Benn W. Levy; produced by Yolanda Mero-Irion & the New Opera Company) triumphed on Broadway just 18 years ago. Returning last week, it looked like a genuine theatrical relic. It still had traces of gay cynicism, Gallic sprightliness and wit. But it wheezed, wobbled, and seemed all the sadder for trying to look jaunty...
...morning he had a sadder duty. Sitting in St. Paul's Cathedral, Lew Douglas heard the memorial service for the late Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, to thousands of wartime Britons, the shy, gaunt symbol of U.S. help, a man Britain will not forget...