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...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...
...JOHN ALOYSIUS COLEMAN...
Among all the speculators in stocks, no one, day in and day out, takes greater risks than John Aloysius Coleman, 58, a trim, broad-shouldered Irishman with the saturnine look and sad eyes of a bloodhound. He is a stock specialist and is required by the New York Stock Exchange to "make the market" and help stabilize prices in the 52 stocks he specializes in. This means that he must often buy a stock, whatever its price and prospects, when the majority of investors want to sell, thus keep it from dropping too much. He must also sell stocks when...
Making his pitch in This Week Magazine, aging (71) onetime New Dealer James Aloysius Farley, now board chairman of Coca-Cola Export Corp., unoriginally proposed: "Let's Put Our ex-Presidents in the Senate." Issuing a statement to garnish Farley's article, Octogenarian Herbert Hoover took a wryly negative stand: "I was in favor of giving former Presidents a seat in the Senate until I passed 75 years. Since then I have less taste for sitting on hard-bottomed chairs during long addresses...