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...sadness in the face of spiritual good/' is very much present in modern novels and plays, writes Evelyn Waugh. It is personified by the man who lost his faith "as though faith were an extraneous possession like an umbrella, which can be inadvertently left behind in a railway-carriage." Waugh also argues that a sin closely allied to sloth, pigritia (slackness), is gaining: people have "'no time' to read or cook or even to dress decorously, while in their offices and workshops they do less and less, in quality and quantity. for ever larger wages with which...
Mezzo Bumbry actually made her U.S. recital debut last winter-in Washington. Acting on the enthusiastic advice of friends who had heard the young singer in Europe, Jackie Kennedy invited Bumbry to sing at the White House after a state dinner (TIME. March 2). Daughter of a St. Louis railway clerk, Grace Bumbry became interested in music in a fashion familiar to many American Negroes -singing in a church choir. Scholarships took her to Boston University, Northwestern, and finally to Santa Barbara's Music Academy of the West to study with Lotte Lehmann, the great German-born soprano...
...Filed a federal suit, charging that the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway conspired to assign Negro "train porters'' to the same work done by white "brakemen" at higher pay-at the same time denying them union membership...
...shot Heney in court and almost killed him. Weeks later, Heney reappeared with a hideous scar, only one eye, and plenty of public sympathy. But Rogers won his case by proving that some of Heney's associates in the prosecution were in the pay of a rival street railway company, which would benefit by a conviction...
...least seven other East German refugees made it across last week. One man jumped from a rooftop to an elevated railway signal tower, then scrambled across the tracks to leap 20 feet into the waiting arms of West Berlin cops. Another suffered eight fractures when he stepped on a Communist land mine on the border, nevertheless crawled 13 hours through forests to reach the West...