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Last week the smartest shops were busier than in months. A good 90% of the customers were G.I.s who wore on their sleeves the patches of a dozen famous divisions. On leave from the front, they were buying Easter presents for home...
...post exchange, where the Army has a gift shop for combat men only, bracelets, pins, scarves, handbags disappeared like doughnuts at a Red Cross club. "Think of it," said Lieut. Rafael V. Munguia, in charge of the wrapping center: "Easter Sunday morning at home . . . with a touch of Paris in every town...
Neither of the week's two developments cleared the air. First, the Government issued a proclamation formally extending the current adjournment of Parliament from Feb. 28 to March 31. March 31 is the Saturday before Easter. Parliament could still be called any time before then, or there could be another extension, or Parliament might not be called at all. Later, Canada's Chief Electoral Officer, Jules Castonguay, announced cancellation of nine upcoming by-elections. His reason: they were unnecessary because Parliament will certainly be dissolved on or before April 17, when its legal life ends...
...Charles Winninger) addressed innumerable times as "Grandfeathers"; or who can be convinced that a little boy, not trying to be smart-alecky, would say of a flower, "It stinks swell"; or who can be touched by the heavy-handed comedy and pathos lavished on a pet hen named Miss Easter. Sunday Dinner may become a sentimental hit, but as an attempt to tell a moving story about real people, it is embarrassing...
Actually, it will be a while before he has to. Not until he is enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral some time after Easter-lack of central heating prevents holding the ceremony sooner-will Geoffrey Fisher take over the job he did not want. By his own admission, he lacks Temple's vision and imagination. He will probably never lead a great spiritual revival in the Church of England, as Temple might have done; nor is he likely to say or do anything to shock or upset his fellow Anglicans, as Temple often did. What he will...