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...enters a religious order? The drawn visage and sunken eye are not encouraging signs to a Mother Prioress interviewing a prospective postulant. High-spirited, happy girls make the best sisters-the ones who enjoy parties and have dates. Such a girl was St. Teresa herself, who told a Spanish swain who admired her pretty feet at a party: "Have a good look, caballero, for this is the last time you will see them...
Hurricane Hazel indirectly claimed another casualty Monday afternoon when an inexperienced workman, James Swain (shown on stretcher, above) fell 22 feet from a Yard tree, which he was mending after storm damage...
...Swain, 46, who had been employed as an arborist for less than a week, plunged to the ground from the first branch of an elm facing University Hall. He suffered brain lacerations and two fractures in the left...
...Carsonish liar, whose opening gun is "I don't suppose you ever fell in love with a midget weighing 39 pounds," its beplumed society lady who springs to her feet when a Salvation Army hymn strikes up, its old woman jabbering rapid-fire Italian, its nervous swain constantly dropping nickels into a pay phone, its persistent fanatic nursing along the marbles game-these have a fine exuberance and humor about them, and have the wackiness -plus a Saroyanesque warmth-of a You Can't Take It with...
...impassioned verses, inscribed on linen paper of powder blue and slipped under a door. ("Love! Bitter love! Pursue me no more!") But the chaperons, the sedate hot-chocolate parties and all the genteel elegance of yesteryear are being put to rout. "Ay, chica," cries 1955's blue-jeaned swain as Night and Day booms out of the record-player, "you're sweeter than an ice-cream cone and a blue sky!" The girl's fashionable ponytail bobs happily in acknowledgment...