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Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who has just had his political ears clipped in the Grey North by-election (TIME, Feb. 12), took time out last week to honor his barber. With some 400 other workaday Ottawans, he attended a party for Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Tasse...
...Some points: basic three-R education for all gypsies, special open-air gypsy trade schools to teach handicrafts, communal camps for gypsy woodcutters, music classes for orchestras and choirs, the establishment of a gypsy national-theater. Traditional gypsy skills, the Professor urged, should be diverted into workaday jobs...
...Winkle Goes to War (Columbia) is a sentimental tale of a meek, 44-year-old, henpecked, workaday bank clerk suddenly caught up by the seat of his well-shined pants and plunged into the workaday reality of modern...
...like a U.S. Episcopal bishop except on formal occasions, when he donned gaiters and apron. Australians liked him for his warm friendliness and for his excellent preaching. His Oxford accent is quite intelligible. He has no prim ecclesiastical mannerisms. His sermons are pithy applications of the Christian faith to workaday life. Each Sunday evening thousands of Australians listened to him on the radio; other thousands read his weekly articles in the Brisbane Courier-Mail...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. William Temple, likes to drive home his points in workaday metaphors. Last week he conjured up an ironmongery (British for hardware store) in which a night-prowling prankster switched round the price tags. Then, said His Grace, "When we enter in the morning, we find lawn mowers are two for 5?, nails $25 each, and a gallon of paint a penny. All the values are wrong. That is what has happened to our civilization, and we shall not come to order and peace until our price tags tally with...