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...Waco, Tex. But from the Texas Baptist General Convention in Forth Worth last week came 4,500 "nays." Said the chairman of the convention's Civic Righteousness Committee in explanation: "No Baptist school should confer a degree on a man who likes his poker and drinks his bourbon. I know that we all agree that no man-even the President of the United States-could be a good Baptist and drink his liquor...
This week the Assembly met in a tense atmosphere made more tense by heavily armed guards surrounding their chamber in the Palais Bourbon. Quickly the Assembly reached a decision. Led by its Socialist-M.R.P. majority, it voted down the Communists, 400-to-163, and directed M. de Gaulle to continue his efforts to form a coalition government...
Alba's disgruntlement with things at home had long been known, his move long expected. But Alba, an ardent monarchist, might have been expected to stick at his post so long as he could do anything to help Pretender Don Juan de Bourbon, who has been waiting in Switzerland for the call to the throne. Apparently negotiations between Spain's moderate, non-Falangist faction and the Don Juanists had broken down. And Britain's Labor Government had shown no disposition to back a monarchist restoration in Spain...
Clincher. In Los Angeles, Mrs. William T. Caldwell II testified that her husband had such a temper that he had smashed several bottles of bourbon. "Full bottles?" asked the judge. Told that they were, the judge unhesitatingly said: "Divorce granted...
...Deep Are the Roots, the authors of Tomorrow the World bring a Southern Negro back from war to the Bourbon Senator's household in which he grew up. Having become an officer, a hero and the accepted equal of white Europeans, Brett Charles (Gordon Heath) has a new and far less subservient conception of himself and his race. When he takes some trifling liberties, the Senator (Charles Waldron) gets so blazing mad, so hell-bent on punishing the boy, that he pins on him the theft of a missing watch...