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...show without either McCarthy or Snerd, he folded his handkerchief over his fingers, threw his falsetto voice, and one Ophelia began to talk. "All of a sudden," recalls Bergen, "it dawned on me that women can get into many more situations than men, particularly a bachelor maid." Bergen has kept Ophelia in his act, as a sort of ectoplasmic voice. A while back he asked several Hollywood animated cartoonists to draw what flashed into their minds when they heard her recordings...
...also held last week, at Goshen, N.Y. As usual, a sign hung in front of the county jail reading: "Welcome Horsemen." The race brought out what the black-dirt farmers of Orange County called a "middlin' crop of three-year-olds." The favorite was Yankee Maid, owned by Arch L. Derby of Wichita, Kans., first horse from west of the Mississippi ever to win the event. She won as expected. Her fastest time over the mile course...
Noss would also discard the Western collection plate, substitute a wooden box at the door. Says he: "The Japanese do not have our matter-of-fact attitude to ward money. For example, to give a tip to a hotel maid by handing her the cold and bare coins is to show one's lack of breeding; one will wrap the money in clean white paper, and if possible put this little parcel on a tray. Perhaps the Christian people are used to it now, but lifting the offering to the sound of clinking and jingling coins is often quite...
...which were blistered by retreat. Most of them were beaten men, but some drunken soldiers shouted: "We're waiting for the Bodies!" Meanwhile Simone, Novelist Feuchtwanger's 16-year-old Burgundian heroine, lay in her attic room poring over the story of St. Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orleans, Simone read, had heard mysterious "voices" bidding her save France by fighting the invader. Soon Simone began to hear the voice of her dead radical father, urging her to do likewise...
Then she slipped quietly back to her attic to read some more about Joan. The Maid, Simone noted, had not been put to death by the English invaders, but by 15th-Century French quislings. Soon Si mone found herself in the same fix. A haughty Marquis, the town's political boss, kept a collaborationist eye on her. Her Uncle Planchard was furious with her too, because of the gasoline tanks. Simone was arrested and, like Joan, lost her nerve, signed a confession. But when courage returned, Simone repudiated her confession, gallantly went off to Burgundy's most ruthless...