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BILL KERNAN'S CURIOUS CAREER SHOWS HIM EVEN ILL FITTED FOR HIS AUTHORITARIAN CHOICE. HE WILL LEARN TO ACCEPT DISCIPLINE AS WELL AS DEMAND IT. WHATEVER GAVE HIM THE IDEA THAT THE RANK & FILE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC LAITY DON'T OFTEN GET "SORE" AT THEIR SPIRITUAL PASTORS...
...life came at the hands of Midwife Margery Albright, who rates, and gets, one of the most endearing portraits in the Album. Aunt Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas." Contemptuous of doctors, she cured her husband of fever by forcing a broth of sheep droppings down his protesting gullet. For stubborn pregnancies she blew powdered tobacco "up one nostril of the expectant mother," and so brought on a fit of sneezing that would "dislodge the most reluctant baby...
...enforce some of the explicit rules of the church, e.g., the "bounden duty" of every Episcopalian to attend services on Sunday. Says Kernan: "The laity may do almost anything they want . . . If you tell them that something's their bounden duty, they're liable to get sore...
Regarding "Trouble in the Air," there's also plenty of it on the ground. Those of us who signed on as "Christmas help" when Korea broke have got stuck with the package-wrapping detail, and we're pretty darned sore...
...trying to harvest some votes during a quick tour of the same cigar factory. They carried off the encounter like true Southern Gentlemen. Russell: "Hello. Estes, I haven't seen you in a long time. How are you holding up?" Kefauver: "I'm fine, got a little sore throat in Cincinnati last night. Which side of the street are you working?" Russell: "I'm working both sides." "Be good, Dick." "You be the same, Estes." And with that, the candidates parted to look for less crowded hustings...