Word: aloysius
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Died. The Most Rev. Joseph Aloysius Burke, 76, Roman Catholic bishop of the 879,000-member diocese of Buffalo, N.Y., a boilermaker's son who recently celebrated the golden jubilee of his priesthood; of a heart attack; at the Ecumenical Council in the Vatican. All five U.S. cardinals and 350 bishops overflowed Rome's little Church of Santa Susanna for Bishop Burke's Requiem Mass, marking the first death among the 2,540 prelates at the council...
Died. Frank Aloysius Barrett, 69, only Wyoming politician to serve his state as a U.S. Representative (1943-50), Governor (1951-53) and U.S. Senator (1953-59), a beefy ranchers' Republican who firmly plunked for his state's oil-and-grange interests; of leukemia; in Cheyenne...
...seemed somehow appropriate that on the day before the Seattle fair opened, the one familiar symbol of another great fair-indeed of another great era-should say goodbye. Dead last week of a stroke at 75 was Grover Michael Aloysius Augustine Whalen, president of the 1939 New York World's Fair, chief greeter of the world's celebrities who came to New York during a pulsating quarter-century, inventor of the ticker-tape parade-the Host of New York...
...BROTHER ALOYSIUS, C.F.X. St. Teresa's Boys' School Brooklyn
...Decline and Fall: for the wealthy Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde and her brattish son Peter, Auberon substitutes the wealthy Lady Julia Foxglove and her brattish son Martin; for the loutish Percy Clutterbuck there is the loutish Kenneth Stout; for the sycophantic Dr. Augustus Fagan there is the sycophantic Brother Aloysius. Even the scenes in The Saga are hauntingly familiar: a garden party that is entertained by the Bidcombe Platinum Band recalls the garden party of Decline and Fall, with its Llanabba Silver Band. And Auberon has both his father's love of fantastic Dickensian names (Percy-Scroop-Beauchamp, Nurse Proudfoot...