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Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec and top-ranking member of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Canada, had suffered two heart attacks in six months. A fortnight ago he left Manhattan's Misericordia Hospital for California, hoping to convalesce in a convent at Alhambra. There, around 7 o'clock one morning last week, Msgr. Paul Nicole, the Cardinal's secretary, entered the prelate's room vested for Mass. The Cardinal was sitting before a small altar. The secretary finished the Introit (preliminary to Mass). Then the Cardinal interrupted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: It Is the End | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Drain. In Alhambra, Calif., two thieves listened to their car radio while companions looted a market, later tried to make a getaway, found they had run down the battery; the starter wouldn't turn over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...closing may we say you cannot blame our starting in journalism on Alhambra High School's famous "Moor"--the old man cut tombstone inscriptions, hence the "natural cause of things...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 2/6/1945 | See Source »

...General Electric salesman walked out of the tiny, plain reception room of the unimpressive little plant in Alhambra, Calif. of Lights Incorporated, which manufactures lighting equipment for airports and airplanes. He turned to Managing Director Harry Swift Kimball, told him: "If anyone had ever told me that I'd walk out of the front door of that dump of yours with a million-dollar order in my hand I'd have figured he was crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lighting the Way | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...past the Maginot Line, or through the flooded fields of Holland, or up the steep mountain trails of Norway. Much is made of the fact that he has not crossed the English Channel. He was not there last September, but there are other Septembers. . . . AUBRY MILLER Alhambra, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1941 | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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