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...Sin & Spirits. Madame Blavatsky began life as an adventuress. Born (1831) in the Ukraine of an aristocratic Russian family, she was married at 16 to General Nicephore Blavatsky, deserted him three months later to spend the next 25 years traipsing through European third-class hotels with a broken-down singer. For a while, she operated a shady spiritualist "society" in Cairo. In 1873, at the age of 41, she decided to try the New World...
...same, if overexcited, organ of public conscience. From out of this holy-of-holies stop Beacon Hill have come some of the most astonishing misconceptions of the public stood since the scholastics counted angles on pinpoints, and from this same stern eyric now comes a new concept of what Sin, traditional antagonist of all that was holy in Boston, will mean to New Englanders in these unsettling times...
...Society became synonymous with its executive secretaries, two of whom, J. Frank Chase and the Reverend Bodwell, now rank with the witch burners in local repute. Of impeccable upbringing, both men were of the cloth, and had not the slightest idea of the whys and wheres of Sin--merely reiterating with regularity to the courts and to available Sunday afternoon societies that it was wrong and was to be rooted out of Boston. Bodwell was an intellectual pugilist who was ready to go anywhere to supervise personally the humiliation of those who strayed, and was also ready to take...
...Endeavor Building. Its new facilities will be oppressed into the good flight, especially into the campaign to enforce, in all seriousness, the Massachusetts law against fornication. Even with its new liberal outlook, this last outpost of holier-than-then may well find mass distrust among those who take their Sin along with death and taxes...
Harry Truman decided on a quiet week ; he ducked his weekly press grilling, with the excuse that he had nothing special to announce. Newspaper editorials pointed out that omission might also be a sin. When the President failed to meet returning Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes at the capital airport, Washington buzzed furiously once again. Scolded N.Y. Timesman Arthur Krock: "Mr. Truman and his staff should have realized ... that his absence . . . would set up a whispering gallery." But even the hard-hearted Krock was moved to concede grudgingly that "the President is a prisoner of his office . . . there...