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...time that a figure in the sports world has been on the cover of TIME. The first athlete to appear was a hard-jawed, 28-year-old mauler by the name of Jack Dempsey. That was in September 1923. Two weeks later, he fought his famous match with Luis Angel ("Bull") Firpo, at which boxing fans paid a total of $1,888,822 to see Dempsey retain his world heavyweight championship in 3 minutes, 57 seconds of furious fighting...
Small Disappointment. The Spanish clergy, however, is not used to the Little Sisters' way of doing things. One rainy day this spring, Don Angel, the parish priest whose church is more than a mile from the settlement, sloshed through the mud for his first visit to the nuns. He could not conceal his disapproval. "My daughters, I hope you know what you are doing," he said, shaking his head. A high-ranking prelate, hearing of the sisters' work, observed: "Every country has its own traditions and customs. Here we preach the word of God and help the poor...
...Bomba: 24-year-old Marie Amélie Arizmendi, a French Basque. The warm weather had come at last, and the Order of the Little Sisters of Jesus seemed securely established in Spain. Only one small disappointment flawed Sister Marie Amélie's arrival. Don Angel refused for the second time to dedicate their little chapel...
...first time, it was because the roof leaked. This time, Don Angel said, it was because the chapel could not be securely shut. But the sisters and their neighbors were working hard last week to put up strong doors and a stout lock, and Sister Marie Aline bubbled with optimism. "We will end up by having such a nice little chapel that Father Angel will be happy to come and say Mass in it," she said. "We can do good work here...
...DARK ANGEL (374 pp.)-Mika Waltari-Putnam...