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...hymns with "Amen." Said the beefy, chuckling Archbishop: "I would plead that we should get out of the evil habit. If the tune is a good one, it comes to an end by itself. To put an 'Amen' afterward is redundant-I think it is rather a bore...
Night flying, more & more popular on U. S. airlines, is a bore. The scenery is blackness, scattered lights, sometimes stars. Not bored, however, were nine passengers on a Washington-Pittsburgh plane of Central Airlines one night last week. Two seats had been removed to install a five-foot-square screen at the cabin's front end. Warner Brothers had provided a cinema projector, two technicians, a specially-made 16-mm. print of Devil Dogs of the Air. The tri-Wasp Ford, ordinarily noisy, had been sound-proofed with rock wool...
...runs the Greek legend. Lately Italian archeologists, probing the sand dunes near the ancient port of Ostia at the mouth of the yellow Tiber, turned up a marble statue of Perseus, a curly-haired youth clutching his dreadful trophy. The statue bore some resemblance to the Hermes of Praxiteles, was apparently carved in the Graeco-Roman period...
From a refrigerated crypt in Pasadena, Calif., undertakers removed the frozen body of William Wrigley Jr., found it unchanged in appearance since they put it there three years ago. An ambulance sped it to the S. S. Catalina which bore it out to Santa Catalina Island. Near the town of Avalon an obelisk-topped mausoleum has been two years building. There William Wrigley Jr. was finally buried...
Romeo and Juliet. A great show, even for those who secretly think the Bard is a bore...