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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Isaac Thomas Hecker was in hot water. The 37-year-old Redemptorist had arrived in Rome to discuss with the head of his congregation a matter that was troubling some of its members in the U.S. -the best way to preach the Roman Catholic faith to Americans. Within a few days, he found himself expelled from the Redemptorist Congregation on the ground that his trip had violated his vows of obedience and poverty. For the next seven months, the worried priest hurried from prelate to prefect, pleading the need for an English-language mission to the U.S. At last...
Faced with a range of choices from Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, which shifts its Bruegels around on easels to catch the changing light, to Manhattan's glass-walled Museum of Modern Art, which shuts out all direct sunlight, Capodimonte Director Molajoli chose an elaborate mixture of the best of all systems, combined natural with both filament and fluorescent light, automatically mixed to maintain level, shadowless lighting...
...areas, money is still so tight that bankers see no reason to cut interest rates and thus reduce their profits. Denver's bankers, who normally lend out only 30% to 35% of their deposits, are running at 55% of deposits, are only able to take care of their best customers. Dallas banks have more borrowers than there is money to lend. Says President Benjamin Wooten of Dallas' First National Bank: "We're not going to drop our prime rate. Supply and demand should be the governing factors in the cost of money...
...they merely carved their initials on the giant oak of his literary reputation. He was even luckier in his late brother, Stanislaus. With candor, insight and a remarkable lack of rancor toward the man who arrogantly dubbed him "my whetstone," Stanislaus was content to draw what is easily the best portrait of his legendary brother as a young...
Enemies of Life. John Joyce was not born a failure; he achieved it. Competent connoisseurs compared his tenor voice to the best in Europe, yet he never bothered to train it properly. He failed in politics as well as in business. In his early 405, John Joyce was left with nothing but a pension of ?11 a month. He was the father of a dozen children, but he rarely worked again-though he lived to be 83. Drunk or sober, he affected a monocle, but slipped easily into the language of a stevedore. In one drunken fury, John Joyce almost...