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Whenever Bus was racing, supper at the Mosbacher household was a pretty lively affair. "Why did it take two minutes to get the spinnaker up?" Papa would demand. "Why did you tack when you did?" Recalls Bus: "He was most sparing with his compliments. If I pulled a really bad blunder, I would arrange to have dinner with a friend. On one or two occasions I stayed the weekend." One of Emil Sr.'s concerns was sportsmanship. "He thought it was terrible to file protests," says Bus, "and he always warned me not to get involved in gamesmanship, which...
Roman Camp. Before he entered Jerusalem for the Last Supper, according to Luke, Jesus predicted the city's destruction, declaring that its enemies would "not leave one stone upon another in you." In A.D. 70, after a four-year Jewish revolt, Roman legions smashed through the walls, burned the city, and killed or exiled most of its inhabitants. Enough of them remained, however, to organize another insurrection in A.D. 132 under the messianic fanatic Bar Kochba; the legions once again leveled the city, rebuilt it in the form of a Roman camp called Aelia Capitolina. It was not until...
Every Christian is expected to gather with others "...to praise God, to hear his Word for mankind, to baptize and to join in the Lord's Supper, to pray for and present the world to him in worship, to enjoy fellowship, to receive instruction, strength, and comfort, to order and organize (the church's) corporate life, to be tested, renewed, and reformed, and to speak and act in the world's affairs as may be appropriate to the needs of the time...
...only novelty is that the protagonists are Negroes. While it affects to be a six-decade panorama of Negro advancement, the show is more like a petrified forest of liberal and sentimental clichés through which twinkles a fresh new mini-star, rising from television and supper clubs, Leslie Uggams...
...telephone rings in the big house at Sagamore Hill. "Is that you, Archie?" pipes a small boy's voice. "No, this is Archie's father," a man answers. "Oh, well, you'll do," says the small boy. "Tell Archie to be sure to come to supper tonight." Grinning, Archie's dad, the 26th President of the U.S., hangs up the receiver. "How the creatures do order one about," he says...