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...lawyer . . . has already taken a solemn oath to support the Constitution," added Chafee. "Nobody is forced to be represented by him." He felt that the measure was hastily put through, and that more thought should be given to so important a decision...
Faces to the Wall. Last week's opening ceremonies were conducted amid the high good spirits of a family christening. After solemn prayers, during which strangers (allowed to participate for the first time) and members alike knelt on the benches with faces turned toward the wall, a motion was put by Prime Minister Attlee to thank the King for the new House. Seconded by Churchill, it passed unanimously...
Paris' Bernard Lorjou may stick to his conviction that art is a solemn business; to Rome's Fabius Gugel it is no such thing. Gugel's working philosophy is expressed in a neat double negative. "Nothing," he says, "pays off more in the end than not being too serious in art. It's all right to make other people think it's serious, but the artist should never take it too seriously himself...
...were the scene of a lively kermesse. It was a county fair, Paris style, with chorus girls prancing on an open-air platform while, at garishly decorated stands, French stage and screen stars whooped it up for French products. In all the buzzing, crowded area there was but one solemn touch. A long, patient line had formed before a plain board platform. On it sat a slender, spectacled novelist rapidly autographing stacks of his latest book. They were selling as fast as he could write his name in a large clear hand: C. Virgil Gheorghiu. Within a couple of hours...
...general, these charges were admitted by the organized doctors of West Germany. In "A solemn Declaration ... to the W.M.A.," they further admitted "that in performing these acts and experiments, which have resulted in the deaths of millions . . . the German medical profession has violated the ethical tradition of medicine, has debased the honor of the profession, and has prostituted medical science in the service of war and political hatred." Organized German doctors had not even made a protest while Hitler was in power...