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...Hasidim, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum. leader of Brooklyn's famed Williamsburg Hasidic community, is "king of all rabbis, holiest of all Jews, greatest benefactor of our generation." Last week, the aging (73), frail, militantly anti-Zionist rabbi was in the Holy Land, rousing new support for his private war against the state of Israel...
...judge asked each of them. Puzzled, each replied, "No, sir." Advised Baptist Walker: "The Supreme Ruler of the Universe is God. He is the one to whom you should direct your appeal for comfort and advice. I commend him to you as one who can be a great benefactor to each of you if you call on him humbly and prayerfully...
...very small potatoes compared with the slums that make up the bulk of the city. The hovels are all freshly painted, generally an ocher or a sky blue or sea green, with a barn-red trim framing the doors and windows. That's the way El Benefactor wants it, and everybody paints once or twice a year. But the houses themselves are miserable one-or two-room shacks, so old and termite-riddled that they list crazily against one another. The children are naked and dirty, the women haggard, and much of the cooking is done on the sidewalk...
Oysters à Leclerc. Last September authorities in Grenoble (pop. 140,000) invited Benefactor Leclerc to open a store there to force down food prices, among the highest in France. Within a month the Leclerc store was doing a monthly business of $60,000, improving the diet of Grenoble families with such unaccustomed luxuries as imported fresh oysters at 42? a dozen, against the usual price of $1.43. Promptly, competitors encircled Leclerc's store with six new cut-price outlets, dropped his volume to $24,000 a month. Said Leclerc: "I did not come here to make money...
...seemed to rededicate himself, in a sense, to the Sherman tradition. He attended Army of the Tennessee reunions, took such tough stands on national issues -"Socialism asks us to vote for the dishonor of our mothers"; "The man who shoots an anarchist on sight is a public benefactor"-that his Jesuit superiors pulled him off speaking tours. In 1898 he volunteered for duty as an Army chaplain, served in Puerto Rico...