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...little wooden schoolhouse at Rankin Inlet on the icebound coast of Hudson Bay. Before them. Anglican Bishop Donald Marsh solemnly intoned: "It apper-taineth to the office of a deacon, in the church where he shall be appointed to serve, to assist the priest in divine service ..." Armand Tagoona, 35, was being ordained the first Anglican deacon in the eastern Arctic...
...Pygmalion Treatment. To his mounting horror, Sir Percy learns that Lady L. was born Annette Boudin, the daughter of a Paris washerwoman. In due course, like most of the girls of her street, she became a prostitute. But she was beautiful, and soon the top banana of French anarchists. Armand Denis, gave her the Pygmalion treatment. He made a lady of her so that she could play with the very rich and arrange burglaries to finance Armand's assassination plans for the good of humanity...
...Armand was as beautiful as a Greek god and as humorless as a congress of social workers. Annette loved him and tried to make a man of him, and some nights she succeeded. But humanity had to be saved, bombs had to be thrown, and Annette soon became bored. She married, in turn, a couple of impeccable British aristocrats, but she went on loving Armand-to the point of helping him to rob her own guests. But in the end she realized that she could never possess him as other women possess their men. "He was a selfish, egotistical, self...
...Supreme Court invalidating 4,954 absentee and shut-in votes. Having sneaked to a fourth term through this legal loophole, Denny Roberts is now plagued by party dissidence and public weariness with his erratic conduct in office. In the primary, Roberts had to run against his ambitious lieutenant governor, Armand H. Cote, won by only 11,000 votes. And hapless Governor Roberts still has to explain why he fired a telegram (also signed by ten other Governors) to Washington last February demanding a federal tax cut from President Eisenhower, while simultaneously asking his own Rhode Island taxpayers to cough...
MUTUAL BROADCASTING, with 448 affiliates in the U.S., has been taken over by Scranton Corp., controlled by Detroit's F. L. Jacobs Co., auto-parts maker. Scranto'n paid more than $2,000,000 to syndicate headed by Los Angeles Oilman Armand Hammer, which bought Mutual for about $660,000 last year...