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...condemnation; what is really immoral is this arbitrary fixing of labels-"poetaster," "poeticule," "ham" (in a recent "review" of unhappy memory)-and then forcing the material to correspond to them. The pity of it is that you are influential. Your treatment of Dr. Williams' book does much to explain the indifference you mention in your first sentence...
...Pressed to explain why New York Telephone Co. does not employ an "equitable number" of Jews, one official replied that Jewish girls could not operate equipment "because their arms are too short." A restaurateur alibied that Jewish waitresses do not like to serve nonkosher food...
...mortified his flesh with scourges and a hair shirt, ate mostly boiled potatoes, in general mistreated his body so that his doctor said "science could not explain how he remained alive." For 35 years, according to his account and those of his associates, he was visited, tormented and in fact "infested" by the Devil. The Cure read people's minds in the confessional, performed small miracles such as causing grain to multiply during famine, large ones such as curing illness. His medical miracles M. Vianney modestly attributed to another saint, with whom he said he held periodic converse...
Witness Hedges gave him a good look at the button. But he did not explain that it is the badge of the 8-Ball Club, organized years ago "by a group of the dog-house boys for their mutual protection against the pitfalls in life." Members include NBC-RCA engineers, salesmen, sales managers-people who consider themselves most frequently behind the 8-ball...
Albert Chaperau explained that he liked to bring in gifts for his friends. Acquaintances of Mr. Chaperau were called upon to explain that they accepted his gifts in good faith. Among the embarrassed donees were Comedians Jack Benny and Jack Pearl; Cinemactor Wallace Ford, Hotelman Ralph Hitz, Twentieth Century-Fox Executive Joseph Moskowitz. Professing great "amusement" over it all last week, Albert Chaperau cracked...