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Charnel chaos, forgotten by the outside world, was Hawaii's leper settlement on Molokai Island when in 1873 a young Belgian named Father Damien (Joseph De Veuster) begged his bishop to send him there. Father Damien worked like a beaver to improve the place, made himself and it famous. One Sunday in 1885 he opened his sermon not with the customary "Brethren" but simply: "We lepers...
...occurred to me that TIME might be interested in knowing that Artist John Steuart Curry (TIME, April 10) achieved considerable recognition as an athlete while in [Geneva] college (Beaver Falls, Pa.). On the cinder path his 220 low hurdle and 220 dash are among the most vivid memories of action which the writer can recall. He could always be counted on for first place in these events. His speed was utilized on the eleven as third man on the triple pass, then comparatively new. Invariably he would pass the line of scrimmage ahead of the first man receiving the pass...
This week, in public, the Pope would bestow upon the new cardinals their big, cartwheel-shaped red beaver hats, with 15 tassels, which each would hang in the sanctuary of his cathedral. They would kiss the papal slippers, hand and cheek, would be embraced in turn by their fellow Princes of the Church. Then, once more in secret, the Pope would present rings, perform the ceremony of "opening" and "closing" the cardinals' mouths, symbolizing the weighty matters which they were to hear and keep secret...
...Yazoos and Yapoos seriously expect we Yahoos to believe that cancellation favoring Europe at once and ipso facto means trade favoring America? It is an obvious non sequitur. Witness the attitude of our chiefest creditor. Right now at Ottawa she is busy as a beaver in a brook attempting to dam up a billion-dollar trade between dollar-tied neighbors, alienating from us Canadian plants and other acts which if a Yahoo like Andrew Jackson sat in Washington would mean war. Will cancellation revoke Ottawa decrees unfavorable to us? Will it put American wheat on a parity with Canadian...
Wilson (443 young ladies) is approved by the American Association of Universities. Beaver (642), though highly esteemed by the Presbyterian Church, is not. Nonetheless Beaver's President Walter Burton Greenway was last week planning to appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, on the grounds that most of the evidence had been taken before he assumed office in 1928, that Orphans Court had not given Beaver credit for subsequent changes...