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Asked 'Is Hitler a Catholic?" the Archbishop of Munich, Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber replies: "The Archbishopric is not aware that Der Führer has ever withdrawn from the Catholic Church." Declared Herr Hitler's own Realmchancellery: "Adolf Hitler was born a Catholic, baptized a Catholic and is still a Catholic, although not a practising Catholic in the ordinary churchgoing sense." The latest German Wer Ist's (Who's Who) plainly lists Der Führer as "Catholic...
...notice you often refer to certain people as being "well-born," "blue-blooded," and so on. For instance, in one sentence you speak of ". . . Host Stimson, the well-born Manhattan lawyer . . . and Undersecretary Phillips, the Boston blueblood. . . ." [TIME...
...three-or-m o r e-generations." If so, Stimson and Phillips and the King of England and the Duke of Duluth are wellborn, and I'm not. But as far as genes and chromosomes are concerned, I rise to announce that I'm just as well-born as any person you've ever mentioned in your excellent magazine. With the possible exception, of course, of Jesus Christ, and the Virgin Mary...
...With his General's cap and all his medals beside him, they laid him out in the village church at Maracay. All night long barefoot peasants shuffled past, their black eyes wide with wonder. In his lifetime canny Dictator Gomez made much of the fact that he was born on July 24, a holiday celebrated throughout South America as the birthday of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar. The day and hour of his death last week were reported to have coincided with those of Bolivar's 105 years...
...career as he followed his. One fine day, when Bennett was off on a cruise, she knew she was going to have a baby. His reply to her news: "Very sorry. Very glad. Shall catch boat Hook of Holland, be with you tomorrow." When the baby (a girl) was born. Dorothy and the child moved into Bennett's house, were acknowledged as his family...