Word: 131st
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Jake Allex Mandushich, 72, Serbian-born World War I U.S. Army corporal who was decorated by seven nations, won the Medal of Honor at Chipilly Ridge, France in 1918 when as a noncom in the 131st U.S. Infantry he stormed a German machine-gun nest, bayoneted five Germans, captured 15 more; in a Veterans Administration hospital in Chicago...
...colossal soul [who] lies vast abroad on his times, uncomprehended by them, and requires a long focal distance to be seen." Henry James called him "the sanest and most far-reaching intellect." Last week the Church of the New Jerusalem met in Manhattan for its 131st General Convention. On hand were 250 delegates, including the Rev. Yonezo Doi, whose flock in Japan and Korea numbers 3,400 Swedenborgians. Meeting in their trim, light-filled church off Park Avenue on 35th Street and in their church in Brooklyn Heights, the prosperous-looking, efficient men and women of New Jerusalem heard reports...