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...rises at about 6:30 a. m. and rings for his personal servant, Cavaliere Malvestiti, whose surname by odd circumstance means "badly dressed." Old companions, they chat in Milanese dialect...
...South, Alabama's Catholic-baiting Senator Heflin of the untiring lungs, leads a chorus of Pope-fearing Protestants, others, more tolerant, seeing what power the Catholic Church holds over the minds of their Irish cooks and nursemaids, wonder whether any Roman Catholic can be an unbiased and independent servant of the State. Last week, two sober magazines, the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic approached the question with dignity and understanding. In an editorial, "A Catholic President?" the New Republic says: "If Governor Smith is to have any chance for the [Democratic] nomination, he cannot continue for long...
...Cities Service Co., $650,000,000 corporation selling gas, oil, electricity and transportation to more than 600 U. S. and Canadian communities, received an intimately colloquial letter from their President, Henry Latham Doherty, last week. The letter, like the lines of drama, revealed the tribulations of a quasi servant of the U. S. public: "I am not an impatient man and I am not given to making impatient statements, but I have got to a point where it is hard for me to preserve the semblance of good humor when somebody makes a statement that Cities Service...
...doctors said that he was suffering from Landry's paralysis, which generally kills the victim in two to 14 days. Still there was faint hope for their Albert. In 1898, at Minneapolis, a Swedish house servant had lived for 41 days under artificial respiration. And at New Haven, a year ago, one Mrs. Mary Baker, with lungs, paralyzed for 75 hours, had recovered...
...drama of religious symbolism by Charles Rann Kennedy, in which a servant does and says the things which, in the author's opinion, Jesus Christ would say and do were he in the same situation. John Galsworthy wrote a similar play, Windows, without the Christian emphasis...