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...forgiveness to 75%, marked time until the bill comes to a vote on the House floor next week. Minnesota's balding Harold Knutson still held out for something closer to the Ruml plan; he hoped for many a Congressman's conversion while home for the Easter recess. Dopesters agreed that the House would finally pass some kind of tax bill, to throw it, as usual, in the Senate's lap for rewriting...
...like old times in England this Easter Sunday. Once again the people heard their beloved church bells. Muted since Dunkirk three years ago (they were to be rung only to signal invasion), they have pealed out only twice since, on a memorable Sunday last November, when they rang in thanksgiving for the victory at El Alamein, and last Christmas. But now they will ring out each Sunday...
...many a parish, shorn by the war of its change ringers, only a lone peal rang out the good tidings of Easter. But Londoners were especially delighted to hear St. Paul's bells ring the half-hour-long Stedman Cinques. Alfred B. Peck, for 40 years bell-ringer at the Cathedral, had long been awaiting this day. All through Britain's darkest hours he and his 13 assistants bad practiced regularly on the Cathedral's twelve-bell peal with a special muffling apparatus that prevented any sound...
Twas the night before Easter; the Briggs watch felt funny...
...Holy Week began, Easter lilies were scarce in U.S. floral shops, as they were last year, but no more expensive ($7.50 to $12 a dozen, or $2.50 to $6 & up for a potted plant). U.S. horticulturists had barely begun to fill the demand left when bulb imports from Japan stopped...