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Richard Roswell Lyman, towering teetotaling, 73-year-old bigwig of the Mormons (5th-ranking member of th sect's Council of Twelve Apostles), was the subject of a brief, grim announcement from headquarters. "Notice is hereby given," it ran, "that after due hearing before the Council of Twelve Apostles and upon his own confession [he] has been excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for violation of the Christian law of chastity." Lyman was the twelfth Apostle to be excommunicated since the sect was founded. He was the son of an Apostle, the grandson...
...TIME says, "Chairman Spangler himself had compressed his postwar domestic plank into on typewritten page of anti-New Deal invective and glowing promises." Th fact is that Chairman Spangler did not desire the Council to adopt any resolution on domestic policy. . . . This did not meet with the approval of the Domestic Affairs Ccmmittee, particularly Governor Dewey and myself. . . I enclose the postwar domestic plank which I wrote Sunday night after learning that none had been prepared by Mr. Spangler, and which I submitted to the committee...
...show, as he did the posters of his time, was the work of stunted, aristocratic Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa, who put his hand to almost every variety of graphic art. But also shown were works by Lautrec's finest contemporaries: Jean Louis Forain, Alexandre Théophile Steinlen, James Ensor, Jules Chéret, Albert Guillaume, F. A. Cazals (one poster showed Poet Paul Verlaine at an exhibition...
...story is taken from my play, A La Creole, which was produced at Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré in New Orleans in 1927, by the Professional Players in Philadelphia and the Pasadena Community Playhouse. The speech in the play is made by a little Creole spinster doing job work in Madame Toup's carnival costume shop. Mademoiselle Titine says: "It was a religion my Pappa had for opera, yas. Me, I can show you that box at the opera where I am almost born! It was Les Huguenots and when the chorus sing...
...delight to congratulate the officers and men of the Southern Railway System on the manner in which they have assisted the officers of the battalion and of the Military Railway Service in the training of the -th. Never has there been, in my knowledge of railroad service, a more cooperative, coordinated, unselfish and thoroughly competent help given anybody...