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Rolling a professional eye at the saga of the first Roman Catholic to win the presidency, Historian (Giants of Justice) Albert Vorspan, 37, concocted "a whimsical fantasy" titled "A Jew in the White House," for the current American Judaism (circ. 220,000), official magazine of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Excerpts...
Something About a Soldier. Branwell's sad saga ought to have made a more compelling story than Novelist Daphne Du Maurier has made of it. She is too busy justifying Branwell to do psychological justice to his twisted life. As a boy, Branwell was startlingly precocious. At eight, he could commit a page to memory on a single reading, repeat a lesson verbatim, store away names, dates, and places with faultless recall. Ambidextrous, he could write two letters at once. His proud, high-strung curate father had been left a widower with six small children, five of them girls...
...chapel to pray at the flower-decked casket of the young third pilot, the only fatality in the rebel capture of the Santa Maria. Across the wide Atlantic in Brazil, where he is enjoying asylum, rebel Captain Galvão added his own carnival note to the saga: he announced that he might star in a Mexican movie about the Santa Maria's capture, "as long as it does not injure the dignity of the movement I head...
...either the inglorious end of one saga or the unpredictable start of another...
Without this myth, the story of the House of Levy, and of Ernie Levy in particular, would be just another saga of suffering. Using this legend, the author is able to create a deeply religious mystique that underlies the entire tale of martyrdom, that makes it somehow more real, more heartfelt, and more tragic than the usual scenes of persecution and extermination...