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Splitting the vacated positions, the Prime Minister last week appointed as Secretary to the Cabinet Edward E. Bridges, civil servant and son of the late Poet Laureate Robert Bridges; as Clerk of the Privy Council Sir Rupert Howorth, former Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet; and as secretary to the powerful Committee of Imperial Defense, Colonel Hastings L. Ismay, heretofore Deputy Secretary...
...civil servant-sometimes," beamed Honest Harold Ickes...
...black skin. As regards white women, he claims to follow the footsteps of St. Paul. But when, on a holy pilgrimage to Rome, he is easily seduced by a sophisticated adventuress, he admits he is more pained by her sudden coldness than by his sin. Marrying a thin, homely servant girl, whose amiable vulgarity ever after disgusts him, he admits when she dies that his ego misses...
...trend toward mysticism, which expressed itself in three smash hits (Our Town, Shadow and Substance, On Borrowed Time) as well as in some lesser fry. But all these plays, warmed by humor or pricked by wit, were far removed from the solemn fudge of the Servant in the House era, made neither God nor Death embarrassing. On Borrowed Time, though pleasant, was very likely the most overrated play of the season. But Our Town (the Pulitzer Prize play), despite a third act which got beyond its depth, squeezed so much honest feeling, poetry and humor into its first two acts...
Into Dublin's Department of Agriculture Building last week strode a 78-year-old, tall, erect, walrus-mustached Gaelic scholar. There, flanked by Eire Ministers, high court justices and Parliament leaders, this poet, playwright and author, Dr. Douglas Hyde by name, received from Civil Servant Wilfrid Brown formal notification in Gaelic that he had been elected first President of Eire. No vote-counting was necessary for Civil Servant Brown to reach this conclusion, for Dr. Hyde had been chosen by both Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail Party and William T. Cosgrave's Opposition Party...