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Editor Lehmann believes that these 14 stories (which first appeared in his British little-magazine New Writing) prove "the dominating richness and vitality of French literature among the literatures of Europe." But U.S. readers are likely to feel that most of the richness is stylistic sheen, and the vitality only skin-deep...
Easter Services (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC Television). Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam; Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen...
...made a perfunctory beginning as a Council insideman last Wednesday and just got my sheen off without really getting a chance to hop in and wade around a bit. "Perfunctory" because I was outbralled by a "colorful" speaker (Merwin K. Hart) in the chamber above and didn't learn that the three-ring Student Council show was aprogress below until a shirtsleoved and weary messenger appeared and gave me the word. Upon finally arriving at the scene of the plotting, I got into the feel of the thing a bit but rather expect that future Council meetings will be more...
Catholic Hour (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen discussing The Root of All Our Anxieties...
...down and $5 a month, he began teaching young Jake how to swing a tennis racket. Each day, the youngster spent three hours on trolley cars, traveling the 18 miles between his home and Skeen's Beverly Hills court. Gradually his strokes took on a Skeen sheen. At 15, Jake easily beat Alice Marble, who was then women's singles champion...