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...furious. The Rumanian High Court declared the marriage null & void, but Carol lived with Zizi until his money ran out; when a son was born and the registrar refused to enter the prince's name as father, Carol wrote a letter to Zizi acknowledging his parenthood and vowing undying love. The vow lasted one year, until Queen Marie found her impoverished son a royal match: cool, blonde Princess Helen of Greece. In due course Prince Michael was born...
...stern, dry man" took his place, and "my delightful roamings through the gavottes and bourrées of Bach were at an end." She was very unhappy. "I dream only one thing, when I am grown to play only Bach, Haydn and Mozart." She sealed this vow in an envelope, to be opened "when I am a big girl. But I opened it the next day, of course...
There were arguments pro & con over who helps the church more-the active priest or the contemplative. Said the Right Rev. M. James Fox, Abbot of the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky,* whose monks take a vow never to speak, "Silence does not lock the soul in a prison . . . Silence merely gives you a heart filled with Jesus." Countered Dom Aelred Graham, a Benedictine who writes and teaches, "It is possible to do more good and lose nothing of contemplation by creative and more active work for society...
...disturbing rise of such figures, dramatized by last week's election, gave impetus to the Demo-Christian bill to outlaw all neo-Fascist movements, which has already been approved by the Senate and has a good chance of passing the Chamber. If it does, the neo-Fascists vow to return under some other name. Admitted a weary Demo-Christian leader: "It's very difficult to legislate a disease like Fascism out of existence...
...flight precipitates enough of a crisis for the father to vow a new family existence. There is a festive Sunday breakfast, much talk of a fine vacation. But for all the promises, the future doesn't look promising; the worm that seems to turn is still a leopard cursed with his spots. It is a chronicle of countless families whose struggle is less for bread than for something more than bread, and who are riot 1 ^o callous to love, but too burdened. If not successful, Sunday Breakfast is generally interesting and fitfully touching. One big difficulty is that...