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...care. But in an effort to turn honest document into honest-to-God drama, Playwright Albright introduces a hobbling version of the modern-minded young medico balked by his old-fogy superior, lugs in the love of two staff doctors for the same nurse. These concessions to plot bore like termites through the sound timber of the play's background, leave it rather hollow...
...those he had not. He compared himself to the chief operator of a telephone switchboard who must accept responsibility for all the operators' "wrong numbers." He then went back to 1929, rehearsed as a confession the gist of his editorials publicly printed then. This seemed greatly to bore the judges. Russian quick-wits at once saw that Bukharin's "confession" of what he called last week the secret program of the conspirators was only a rehash of his public program of 1929, rejected then by Stalin, but amicably. "Our program," confessed the Heir of Lenin, "was greater freedom...
...Last year the 20 major Protestant denominations of the U. S. collected $15,000,000 more than the year before. So last week reported the United Stewardship Council, representing 23 U. S. and Canadian churches. The council's report bore out the familiar U. S. dogma that country folk are more religious than city people; churches with rural constituents showed the greatest increase in giving. Highest per cent gains were in the Church of the Brethren, 16%, and the Church of the Nazarene, 13%. The Southern Baptists gave $2,300.120 more than the year before, an 8% increase. Next...
...Naples, Filomena Ducci bore twins, the second pair in 14 months, named them Vittorio and Bruno...
...same characters (or their sons and grandsons) turned up in volume after volume, critics suspected that Faulkner had some unified plan that would become apparent when his cycle of books was completed. But when Pylon was published three years ago. with a high-pitched story of aviation that bore no relation to his other novels, critics began to wonder if he had any plan at all. And when Absalom, Absalom! appeared in 1936, it looked as if he had been laying out dead-end streets in the wilderness...