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...master of celestial ceremonies helped the soul of a dead prize fighter to inhabit the body of a surviving one, with happy results in the ring and at the movie box office. This time Mr. Jordan reaches higher for heavenly intervention, and escorts it a bit lower. The rosy shade of Terpsichore (Rita Hay-worth), outraged by a Broadway work-in-progress called Swinging the Muses, comes down to earth and gets into the act. She immediately dances herself into the lead of the show, and into a fine kettle of fish...
...Almighty Himself. But there is an innocence about his tyranny which excuses the kind way everybody, including the authors, feels toward him. Mother (Irene Dunne) is a gentle and infinitely guileful soul with great skill at winning victories by passive resistance. There are four sons, each in a different shade of red hair...
...away from the hospital a humble little old lady, Aki Komatsu, rested from the sun with two other old ladies in the black hollow of a burned-out tree in the center of the Hiroshima city graveyard. She had little to share but the shade, she said. But she was sharing much more. "I lost my husband and my three children," she said, pointing a crooked finger to a rubble heap near by. "I lived. These [pointing to her companions], lost theirs also. Now we three old ladies live in a little hut near the city hall. We are clearing...
...Recessional. As 400 million Indians (one-fifth of mankind) became self-governing, the British recessional was well begun. From lonely outposts in Kashmir, looking nervously north to the Russian border, from lush Assam where tea bushes grow in the spectral sau trees' shade, from residences deep in central India's jungles, from gay and airy Bangalore, more than 60,000 Britons had served notice that they were leaving the land which had been Britain's treasure and shame, her pride and her increasing care...
...Idaho's panhandle, 50 miles south of the Canadian border, lies Lake Pend Oreille (rhymes with yonder bay), shaped like a question mark. Three mountain ranges cradle the lake, 2,500 feet deep in places and a shade of blue to match. Everyone agreed that it was pleasant to look at, but no one got very much excited about the fishing there until two years ago. Then a local meat-market owner got the strike of his life: his reel screamed and he thought his line would snap. From Pend Oreille's cool water, after a few minutes...