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...Tha-Sarno reason to Tyler-ate speeding. We Bailey missed that Chapman. A Mueller horse should have Carey-d mo," quaked his assistant, Monahan-ds tremble, Murphy-t ache, Marriott pounds, and McCraney-um throbs--a Fitkin occur. It-Sar-della-brate plot--Bissell Kill...
...Karens have always been a separate people; their conversion to Christianity intensified their division from the Buddhist Burmans. The first Karen convert was Ko Tha Byu, a Karen bandit bought out of slavery by Dr. Adoniram Judson, a Baptist missionary from Maiden, Mass, who had arrived in Burma in 1813. Ko Tha Byu learned to read the Scriptures, was baptized, and set out to convert his fellow tribesmen. Karens, who had a myth that one day their "lost white brother" would return over the great waters with a "lost book," made willing listeners. When bands of Karens began to arrive...
Lost Landslide. Below, the ballroom was slowly filling with party workers, ready to watch the avalanche bury Harry Truman. Campaign Manager Herb Brownell emerged from his closely guarded headquarters to announce: "It is now apparent tha we will wind up by sweeping two-thirds of the states." Television cameras trained their lenses on the balcony, where the candidate was expected to appear, along around midnight, for a triumphal speech to the faithful...
Back in Paris after the war, she sneaked backstage between acts of La Bohème at the Opéra-Comique and buttonholed balding Georges Hirsch, head of national French opera houses, told him: "Mr. Rouché thought I would be a wonderful Thaïs." Hirsch was flummoxed. He had never heard of her, and he had taken Jacques Rouché's place, when Rouché was removed as a collaborator. "Does Madame suggest an audition?" asked Hirsch politely. "No," said Edis, "Madame suggests a rehearsal of Manon." She got the rehearsal...
...Director Hirsch had another surprise coming from Edis. After her performance of Thaïs last week, he went backstage to praise her, said: "Of course, I cannot congratulate you on your first performance of Thaïs. You have sung it, I suppose, many times." Said Edis: "You asked me one day if I had ever sung Thaïs and I said yes. Well, I hadn't-except in my dreams...