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Ever since the war, thousands of Austrian couples have been living together without benefit of holy wedlock. Pensions, not passions, are to blame. Widows of public servants and war widows get a pension ranging from $24 for the wife of a streetcar driver to $80 for the wife of a field marshal-but the money stops if the woman marries again. The result has been a flood of what the Church calls "pension concubines." Laymen prefer such gentle euphemisms as "life companions." But however tolerant the neighbors, many Catholic concubines are unhappy about being cut off from the sacraments...
While the mob crossed Massachusetts Avenue, all traffic was stopped. A streetcar was temporarily soldered to its tracks. Across the avenue and in various stages of preparation...
...Daily News's John Chapman, 53, successor to the late Burns Mantle, who writes for the biggest newspaper circulation in the U.S. (2,109,601 ); the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr, 40. who directs and writes plays himself. The Times's review, says Producer (A Streetcar Named Desire) Irene Selznick, is the "most important because the Times isn't trying to reach any audience. The Times doesn't give a damn. It's just there...
...prosecutor and administrator, but little background in private law practice, and no previous service on the bench. He was in private practice for just three years after he graduated from law school, and once admitted that court appearances terrified him. Said he: "I'd get on a streetcar, and I'd be so tense I would hope the car would be wrecked on the way to the courthouse...
Career: After graduation, he spent three years as a junior lawyer in San Francisco and Oakland firms, once admitted that court appearances terrified him. Said he: "I'd get on a streetcar, and I'd be so tense I would hope the car would be wrecked on the way to the courthouse." He went into the Army as a private in 1917, came out as a first lieutenant in 1919, took a job as clerk of the California state assembly's judiciary committee and never returned to private practice; he has been a lawyer in government ever...