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...apology. Late one night Singer Lehmann's telephone had buzzed, a stern voice had said: "This is Mr. Crawford of NBC. Why haven't you appeared for the March of Dimes broadcast? It starts in three minutes." Sleepy Miss Lehmann sang Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes into the telephone, later learned that there was no Mr. Crawford at NBC. With the champagne and roses Mr. Crawford sent a note, written on Hotel Waldorf-Astoria stationery: "With these spirits won't you drink to me not only with thine eyes but with a spirit of forgiveness...
Lean, grey Dr. Ernest William Barnes, Anglican Bishop of Birmingham and one of England's great liberal Christians, recalled the words of St. Paul (in Romans 12:20): Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. In the Upper House of the Convocation, Dr. Barnes moved that the British Government be urged to relax the blockade so that foodstuffs could enter Germany. Sternly His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury replied: "Germany can provide food for its population. We must leave...
...only way to insuring democracy? It may be, if in addition to the belief in the goodness of life, natural equipment of youth, the Class of '39 can add the determination to act on the last precept of Shakespeare's wise old man: "This above all; to thine own self be true . . . ." And it must follow, as class must succeed class, that the nebulous goals of commencement speeches will become meaningful aims for each and that four years at Harvard will be understood to have made for that integration of the individual which education in this time must demand...
...Brills are drawn from his cousins the Edward Everett Hale ("The Man Without a Country") family. Author Marquand is descended from old New England ancestry which included Margaret Fuller, minor Transcendentalists, and a privateer in the Revolution who bagged so many prizes he prayed at last: "Lord, stay thine hand, thy servant hath enough...
...Confraternity appointed 21 Catholic theologians to revise the Douay-Reims Bible. A sample of their work, the Gospel according to St. John, was circulated among last week's Catechetical Congress. Chief innovations: it omits all archaic word forms except thee, thou, thine; does not capitalize the pronouns referring to Jesus Christ; arranges the text by paragraphs, not by numbered verses. Typical revisions: "desert" for "wilderness" in the passage I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness; "wine" for "vinegar" in the description of the last moments of Christ on the Cross...