Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educated at Ohio's Kenyon College and the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Mass. He was dean of Trinity Cathedral in Newark from 1941-48, spent the next three years as professor of pastoral theology at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary. Handsome, jovial "Lichty" Lichtenberger, onetime choir boy, football player and still a devoted Milwaukee Braves fan, holds a solid middle ground between high and low church. He is also known as a wheel in the ecumenical movement. When he heard of his election in Miami Beach, Bishop Lichtenberger went for a swim and wryly told his wife...
...gave soft-voiced assent, and clods of dirt rained on him as the hopeful youngsters kicked. Suddenly he snapped to attention, barked at No. 84: "Head down, boy, eyes up!" Turning sideways he demonstrated the posture with fluent grace. "Relax, boys," he said easily; "don't be awkward...
...both ways. But he insists now: "It wasn't organized athletics-most of my exercise came from hard work, and I had plenty of that." He got much of it in the form of odd jobs, for as much as 25? an hour (a princely sum for a boy during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes), plus helping his father to mow and cradle hay in the summer...
During high school days Stagg read about the youths of Sparta-"particularly the boy who hid a fox in his shirt and never batted an eye when the animal bit into his vitals. That book put Spartan stuff in me." For lack of foxes, Stagg decided that he had to deny himself, to give up something that he cherished. The something was coffee. He has never tasted it since. It was at this time, too-and Stagg remembers the date: May 23, 1877 -that this son of a devout Presbyterian family formally joined the church and decided...
...only five U.S. Presidents to have reached fourscore, and the first in 100 years,*Hoover endured not only the emotional torment of a presidency that spanned most of the Depression, but two decades of obloquy in which his name was equated with economic disaster and social injustice. A poor boy who, like Stagg, got his early exercise involuntarily, and a self-made millionaire like Sloan and Kettering, Herbert Hoover has long since dropped the daily gym exercises that won him fame as head of the "medicine-ball Cabinet." Still, his energy seems almost unlimited. He rises early, usually around...