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...patience of a schoolboy congregation is often sorely tried. One winter three successive clergymen took as their theme the parable of the Prodigal Son. Again, three visiting clergymen in a row ended their sermons with a stereotyped quotation from Sir Henry Newbolt, beginning, 'There's a breathless hush in the close tonight,' and concluding dramatically, 'Play up! play up! and play the game! . . .' On one painful morning a clergyman of national reputation preached a sermon identical in text and argument with that used by an eminent divine the week before. A little Sherlock Holmes investigation...
...Korean went down, Colonel Harmon clouted him in the neck, and another American officer disarmed the man. The silent scuffle escaped the crowd's notice, but Rhee's crony, Lee Bum Suk, the ambitious Home Minister, saw it all and interrupted his boss to tell the breathless crowd of the President's narrow escape. Twenty-eight minutes later, pro-Rhee newspapers were on the streets with extras-something of a record, and lending point to those who thought the murder attempt was staged. Police identified the assassin as a onetime member of a Chinese terrorist organization...
...star performer, who launched the House investigation of TV: Congressman Ezekiel Gathings of West Memphis, Ark., who enlivened his testimony with an impromptu shimmy to demonstrate how a grass-skirted TV actress danced a hoochie-coochie. Said Statesman Gathings in breathless summary: "The rashest thing I ever viewed...
...inches across-the boy squeezed himself down inside the tree, bracing his feet against a rotten projection. He hoped to look for coons in a hollow limb part way down. But his foothold broke. Roger slid down 20 feet, stuck momentarily and began sliding again. Skinned, startled and breathless, he landed at the bottom...
...sufficient calibre available at the same time, which explains why this monumental work receives so few performances. The Longy group, especially cellist George Finckel and bassoonist Theodore Schultz, played superlatively. Wisely ignoring many of the unnecessary repeat signs, the group gave a brisk, driving performance that left the audience breathless...