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...House United. In Tokyo, faced with a new national law designed to force its members out of business after April 1, the National Federation of Special Restaurant Workers' Unions, a sisterhood composed entirely of prostitutes, agreed to comply, made only one demand on the government: $500 each in severance...
...Roman Catholic Church is but one of the many churches in the United States, and, as a matter of fact, there are 15 Orders of Sisters in the Episcopal Church, Orders of Deaconesses with definite garbs in the Lutheran Church, and, I believe, there are a few orders of sisterhood in the Russian and Greek Churches in America. I am anti nothing-Roman Catholic, Jewish or Negro-but I believe in playing fair with every organization...
Thanks to Florence Birmingham, Cambridge will be saved from Communism. Salvation will come at the expense of our children's teeth of course, but this is a small price to pay. One can only hope that our power-mad President and that cookie pushing sisterhood in the State Department will look to Cambridge, and learn. Then perhaps, on some happier day, the Free World will give a vote of thanks to Cambridge, and Florence Birmingham...
Dressed in the grey habit of the Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, a charitable order she helped found in Athens several years ago, Princess Alice of Greece, mother of the Duke of Edinburgh and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, arrived in Manhattan for her third cross-country fund-raising tour. The $10,000 raised two years ago, she said, was used to buy a home for the order, which cares for the poor and the sick. "I am very hopeful this time that I can get enough money to enlarge our plant so that I will not have to come back...
...Society of Christ Our King have worn a habit patterned after that of the Carmelite nuns. On the order's farm at Danville, Va., this has led to practical difficulties, e.g., flowing sleeves get in the way when the sisters drive their Dodge truck. Last week the tiny sisterhood (nine members) had a brand-new habit. Its designer: Manhattan's Hattie Carnegie...