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Following St. Paul's admonition to the Corinthians, the Roman Catholic Church enjoins its womenfolk to cover their heads at worship, if only with a shawl or handkerchief. Last week the Vicar General of the Catholic diocese of Louisville, Very Rev. E. Erie Willett, startled the faithful within and without his flock when, presumably acting for Louisville's Bishop John A. Floersh, he declared that the currently fashionable, crownless "halo hats" are inadequate for Catholic church wear. Quipped Vicar General Willett: "I am sorry that the ladies here will have to wait until they get to heaven before...
Beardless youngsters, grizzled laborers, husky War veterans, all toting guns, plus police in uniform, made up Mayor Knaggs' motley army. On a mile-long causeway, pickets with clubs and with old pots for helmets, accompanied by their determined womenfolk armed with sticks and rocks defied the oncoming enemy. The police chief parleyed at length with the pickets, trying to induce them to withdraw. Meanwhile Governor Murphy, who had given no encouragement to Mayor Knaggs' determination to open the plant, was on the long distance telephone urging the police and pickets not to resort to violence. The police chief...
...battle in the open but have consistently run back into the city where they are now skulking in among the women and children and howling to all nations that Franco is bombing their women and kids! They have not even honored the neutral zone which Franco indicated the womenfolk would be free from bombs for this area is now jammed with militia, the police headquarters such as have not gone to Valencia and the officers of the brave Junta de Defensa...
Picketing was peaceful for three weeks. Then trouble popped. A train ran through an open switch, killing two of the crew. Three bridges burned. The strikers' womenfolk got hungry. At Minden, La. 200 of them swarmed on a train, stripped and beat the fireman, made the engineer telegraph his resignation to President Peter Couch...
...Green Table remains the best of the Jooss ballets, wears well as a masterpiece. In it ten of the dancers mime as diplomats, first suave, later pompous, finally furious. With foolish toy pistols they start the war through which Death stalks, imperiously destroying soldiers and their womenfolk, pecking fatally at a cocky little profiteer, sparing only the diplomats, inscrutably masked, back at the green table again making more trouble...