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...dark-eyed Ida Kaufman, a precocious 14-year-old pupil so "sprightly" he called her Puck and later Ariel. She pursued her 27-year-old instructor relentlessly, until he "fell in love with her and kidnaped her and married her." The bride, who carried roller skates to the altar, became his lifelong collaborator. She died just 13 days before...
...former altar boy and the son of an ex-FBI agent, Boyce grew up in Palos Verdes, Calif., a well-heeled suburb of Los Angeles. He became disillusioned with America after Viet Nam and Watergate. While working as a communications clerk with top security clearance for TRW Inc. in nearby Redondo Beach, he and a friend decided to peddle classified information to the Soviet Union through its embassy in Mexico City. The pair sold $76,000 worth of secrets before they were caught in early...
...Bishop's father liked to lecture his son about how, in his own days as an altar boy in Jersey City, he had been upbraided by the parish priest for yawning at a funeral. So when his father died, Bishop spent the requiem Mass watching an altar boy. "He almost made it to the end. Then the palm of his hand came up to his mouth. He yawned." Just one of death's little ironies, the kind that Bishop ran through his Smith-Corona portable for such bestsellers as The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1955), The Day Christ...
...words," he says of his life's work. He is too modest. Bishop had strong legs, a sharp eye and, perhaps his greatest gift, a keen appreciation for fate's small amusements. The day Jim Bishop dies, keep an eye on the altar boy. -By Donald Morrison
...This is our prayer for Charles and Diana. May the burdens we lay on them be matched by the love with which we support them in the years to come. And however long they live, may they always know that when they pledged themselves to each other before the altar of God, they were surrounded and supported not by mere spectators but by the sincere affection and active prayer of millions of friends. Thanks...