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...Colline in Puccini's La Boheme. Said Bachelor Siepi, with relief: "Finally I have a chance to play a young man. Mi facio bello! [I shall make myself beautiful]." He played and sang his small role to the hilt, and when it was over he collected the same stout applause he has been getting all season...
Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists are not always close friends. But in the Chinese city of Wuchow, Dr. William L. Wallace, Baptist medical missionary and superintendent of Wuchow's Stout Memorial Hospital, was for 15 years on the best of terms with the Maryknoll priests and sisters whose malaria, skin ulcers and other illnesses he treated. Even during the war years, Dr. Wallace stayed in China and kept on with his work, which Maryknoll's Father Thomas Brack last week called "a vocation of sacrifice and love...
...heart of the Stout Memorial Hospital, interesting himself in every patient, going untiringly from operating room to bedside in a never-ending round of charity . . . The only possible sentence the Communists could have passed on him was that he went about doing good. The Maryknoll Fathers of the Wuchow Diocese mourn the loss of Dr. Wallace, whose friendship they esteemed . . . He will be mourned by thousands of Chinese...
...dusty airport outside Detroit one February day in 1926, Henry Ford braced himself against a cutting wind, and lifted a sack of mail to a goggled pilot in an open-cockpit Stout monoplane. The engine roared, and the little 100-m.p.h. plane lurched down the runway and took off for Cleveland, 91 miles away. It was the first flight of airmail under the recently passed Kelly Act. To airmen, it was the beginning of commercial aviation in the U.S. Until then, the U.S. Army and a few private operators had flown the mail for the Post Office Department...
...Ambassador is elderly (73), stout (200 Ibs. on a 5 ft. 10½ in. frame), genial-jowled, courtly and oracular in an oldtime way. He is no shaft of lightning in extempore debate. He can bumble well-meaningly as he did during the 1948 Israel crisis, when he urged disputatious Arabs and Jews to get together and "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit." He cannot match India's Sir Benegal Rau in subtlety and sophistication. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb is his superior in verbal riposte. But Austin sallies into U.N.'s polemic fray with...