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...meeting in Philadelphia, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, its president, paused while pinning up convention badges (see cut) to pin down just what had prompted U.S. concessions to the Russians at Yalta. Explained Mrs. Colvin: "American representatives wondered...how the Russians could consume such large quantities of vodka and keep sober, when it had an intoxicating effect upon the Americans. But we have learned since that Stalin and the Soviets outwit the representatives of other nations by plying them with vodka while the Russians drink water from vodka bottles...
...given himself unstintingly to Shrine activities. He had been Al Malaikah Temple's Potentate. For the past seven years he had worked among the Shrine's crippled children's hospitals, had been a director and trustee of that program, which is a substantial and sober part of Shrine activities. It maintains 16 hospitals, annually raises millions of dollars through its circuses, East-West football game, annual dues and local contributions...
...opening-night reviews had a happy ending too. Said the News Chronicle: "The production is by no means a travesty. It is elegantly done . . ." The sober Times went even further with its approval: "Tate's version affords an interesting peep into the Age of Reason, and the long, leisurely, sensible century that followed . . . The additions are in authentic baroque, as curled and complacent and conventional as the peruke...
...Archbishop of Canterbury wagged a stern finger at politicians. "Stick to the sober truth in speeches," he advised. "The temptation at election times is to overstate or even misstate the case . . ." He frowned on political talks which use quotations from the New Testament, "especially the words of Our Lord." Chances are that "words will be misapplied and their spiritual meaning distorted. In any case, there is the suggestion of trying to turn Scripture to party uses...
Dateline: Philadelphia. The new editor was almost his exact opposite as a personality. Sober, earnest Irving Dilliard, 44, an ex-Nieman fellow, has a schoolteacher's manner and a historian's mind. Dilliard is an expert on the U.S. Supreme Court, a pen-pal of several justices, a contributor to the Dictionary of American Biography. The P-D distributed 70,000 reprints of his "news dispatches" (datelined Philadelphia, 1787) on the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Mild-mannered Irving Dilliard can also write hard-hitting editorials. He wrote the celebrated "contempt of court" editorial, pounded out many...