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...that faced Richelieu as France's leading statesman might well have made him sicker. It looks contemporary to readers in 1940. "The inner structure of the country was still far from stable. The idea of national unity . . . was at times the concern of the burghers merely and the townsfolk, who formed the main bulwark of the kingdom; the great feudal nobles . . . played at high treason. ... As for the Protestants, they were a still greater danger, a State within the State." Menacing Spain had its fifth columns among Catholics and Huguenots. The Huguenots conspired with the Protestant Germans and with...
...none but God." In school their children refuse to salute the flag, believing that it is a graven image. Last week into clink from Maine to Texas as alleged spies, radicals, fifth columnists and non-patriots bounced Bible-dizzy but patently sincere Jehovah's Witnesses. At Litchfield, 111., townsfolk mobbed a Witness motorcade, wrecked its cars. Police rushed 61 Witnesses to the city jail, then had to call for State policemen and neighboring sheriffs to protect the jail...
After eight months the war had come home to England with a smash-bang. Some $400,000 damage had been done to English property. Casualties were a middle-aged Clacton couple, killed in their sleep when the bomber fell, and 162 curious townsfolk injured when she exploded. None was hurt who obeyed the rules, took cover in cellars, lay doggo until the all clear signal. A raid shelter a few yards from the crater was unharmed. While firemen and volunteers were clearing away the ruins, three babies were born in a half-smashed Clacton maternity home. They will have company...
...town's prettiest buildings are on the campus of Wabash College. Two or three times a year, one of these buildings, a prim chapel seating 1,100 people, becomes Crawfordsville's concert hall. There last fortnight, Crawfordsville culture glowed at its brightest. In the chapel 650 townsfolk heard the season's second and final concert of the Crawfordsville Symphony Orchestra. Last week the orchestra's managers checked over their books, discovered that Crawfordsville-which claims to be the smallest town in the U. S. to support a permanent symphony-had done itself prouder than ever this...
...Love, who became the first conductor, and Professor Henry C. Montgomery, who (self-taught) played the French horn, became the orchestra's librarian and guiding angel. With a full concert strength of 55 to 60 musicians, the orchestra now includes music teachers, Wabash students, musically knowledgeable farmers and townsfolk. Ages run from 15 to 61. Some instruments, like the English horn and bass clarinet, are missing. So for its concerts the Symphony augments its ranks by hiring from four to eight professionals from the Indianapolis Symphony...