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...Marian Anderson, a stout and stately 55, took a relaxed look at this week's film digest of her 40,000-mile triumphal sing-swing through Asia earlier this year and said: "It has the look of having been made with love." So it had. The Lady from Philadelphia faithfully recorded the rich, heart-stirring artistry of the Negro woman who began as a Philadelphia choir singer; at the same time it illustrated how sharper than a diplomat's wile can be the sweet song of a woman of great talent and simple dignity. Contralto Anderson acknowledged...
...answered to their names." In the Hirst living room the conversation piece was a large coffin which Mr. Hirst used as a bar. He was 90 when he died; the coffin was finally emptied of potables and, filled at last with Hirst, was "borne to the grave by eight stout widows." Mr. Hirst's wish had been for eight old-maid pallbearers, but the promise of a guinea apiece "was not large enough to overcome the shyness habitual to the maiden state; so, in the end, Mr. Hirst had to fall back upon widows, who, being more accessible, were...
...months since the Diet passed Japan's first law banning prostitution, the brothelkeepers, banded into an organization called the National Venereal Diseases Prevention Autonomy Association (Zensei), have waged a stout battle to preserve their livelihood. Zensei directors called on the Chief Cabinet Secretary, persuaded the government to postpone enforcement of the law until April 1958. Zensei spoke with the air of an organization representing men of stature in the community. Some of its 35,000 members serve in provincial and municipal assemblies; others are directors of loan associations, better business bureaus, even P.T.A.s. A Zensei-sponsored petition protesting...
Terry Lenzner, captain of last year's undefeated Exeter eleven, spearheaded a stout Crimson defense that kept the pressure on Dartmouth during most of the contest. His touchdown was the first scored against the powerful line...
After hours of tortured soul-searching, the board of regents decided that it could not work with a man the majority so thoroughly disagreed with, asked for and got Stout's resignation. But in spite of all the controversy he had stirred up, Minard Stout had also aroused a good deal of sympathy in Nevada for the dogged kind of courage he constantly displayed under fire. "His enemies," said the Las Vegas Sun, "will admit his accomplishments were almost enough to outweigh his mistakes...