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...Church of England and in the collateral Protestant Episcopal Church of the U. S. High-Churchmen in England and Anglo-Catholics in the U. S. wanted symbolism, celibacy and other "Romish" practices in their worship. Opposed were the Low-Churchmen and the plain Episcopalians, who detested every smack of Rome...
Ostert, a nimble stag, was chased by English huntsmen nine years ago into what they call the English Channel and Frenchmen call La Manche. Defying the English sportsmen, French fishermen pulled the stag aboard their smack, named him Ostert, found him a home in the private park of a French chateau near Le Touquet...
...singing bird does its scales like a tyro, gulps, quivers and heaves like a diva, perches on the sheet music on the piano rack and turns the pages. The dog chases the cat through a clothes wringer. Both come through flattened out like sheet iron, go leaping on, smack into a fence which jolts them back into three dimensions. Nothing in a Disney cinema is ever entirely dead, nothing ever dies, nothing is impossible...
Readers who gobbled Jan Welzl's Thirty Years in the Golden North (TIME, May 23), with or without salt, should smack their lips over this anecdotal sequel. In the first book Welzl told how, from being a locksmith, sailor, tramp he became a trader, proprietor of a boat, chief judge of New Siberia. In The Quest for Polar Treasures he describes with the same unliterary candor tall tales of further gold and fur hunts...
...March of Influenza" is what Nature calls the pandemic which, first evident in the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 12 et seq.). has spread over Europe. Between the continents it hit the Cameronia, put 500 passengers to berth, killed none. Off England last week the entire crew of a fishing smack caught the disease, but kept to sea until they exhausted their rum & quinine. French battleships Paris and Jean Bart reported most of their personnel disabled...