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...church forbids traffic in ghosts, he explains that the prohibition is against calling them up by necromancy or seance (as did Saul with the Witch of Endor), not against seeing them. Author Leslie limits his Ghost Book to "instances of ghosts, apparitions and messages from the other or twilight world which have come under Catholic cognizance or suggest Catholic interpretations...
Reed's retirement symbolizes the twilight of the famed Roosevelt court and the rising sun of an Eisenhower court. In 1937 F.D.R. tried and failed to get Congress to raise the number of Justices from nine to 15. But he got the New Deal sympathy he wanted within three years by naming Liberal Democrats Hugo Black, Reed, Felix Frankfurter and William O. Douglas to succeed Justices Van Devanter, Sutherland, Cardozo and Brandeis-key figures on the court that New Dealers scornfully called "The Nine Old Men." Since 1953 Ike has named three-Republicans Chief Justice Earl Warren and John...
...land where the will to revolt is tempered by memories of the cruel 1936-39 civil war, many signs point to a restive twilight of the regime...
Owner Brecker spiced Roseland's entertainment with female prizefights, yo-yo exhibitions, sneezing contests, and dozens of highly publicized jazz weddings, uniting couples who had found romance in Roseland's violet twilight. His finest inspiration, until it was banned by the police, was the dance marathon. To avoid the wrath of Mayor Jimmy Walker, he once carted a truckload of still-dancing marathoners to an excursion steamer and took them out beyond the three-mile limit, where they all became violently sick at the rail...
...said, 'I want to shake hands.' I asked him to apologize for what he had said. He said in good Italian, 'No. I can't do that.' I said I was sorry and withdrew my hand." Before winging off into the misty twilight, stormy-eyed Maria Callas amplified her outrage: "I am a woman who has been terribly hurt ... I don't like this man taking advantage of my publicity...