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...Busiest hecklers: the Veterans of World War I, nicknamed "Wonnies," newly formed professional veterans organization, now luring members from the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars with its promise to lobby through an automatic $100-a-month pension...
...never saw a teacher or a classroom, but for twelve years Rosetta Schroder was a prize student at one of New Zealand's busiest schools. The daughter of a sawmill operator, she lived with her parents and sister near Mount Turiwhate in the rugged bush country of the South Island's thinly populated west coast. The nearest school was a tough nine miles away, too far for daily travel. So when she was five, Rosetta began listening to lessons broadcast each day by New Zealand's national radio stations...
...country publisher in Lisbon, Me. He joined the 17-year-old Monitor after graduation from Bates College in 1925, became the Monitor's managing editor at 37, its editor in 1945. A Christian Scientist who neither smokes, drinks nor cusses, Canham is one of journalism's busiest men. Besides editing the Monitor, he writes a column on international affairs, moderates a weekly TV program in Boston called Starring the Editors. He also heads Columbia University's National Manpower Council, advises the Government on information work. He was named chamber president, says Canham, because "they wanted...
Front Runner Kennedy is also drawing inevitable potshots from the rear, and a position-taking U.S. Senator pushing such hot subjects as labor reform, immigration, minimum wages, and unemployment compensation makes a target of high visibility. Busiest potshotter: New York's Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a warm Stevenson admirer, who attacked Kennedy on two charges: 1) Jack, author of prizewinning Profiles in Courage, "understands what courage is and admires it, but has not quite the independence to have it" (he took no stand in the fight over the late Joe McCarthy); 2) Jack's father, Multimillionaire Joseph...
Giovanni Batista Montini, 61, universally respected throughout Italy as the brightest and busiest of prelates, is the leading new pastoral cardinal, although most of his experience has been in Vatican administration. The son of a well-to-do Brescia lawyer and member of Parliament, Montini entered the Vatican State Secretariat in 1924, where he served for 30 years, becoming (with Tardini) the late Pope's Pro-Secretary of State and one of his closest advisers. He is said to have begged off a red hat in Pius XII's 1952 consistory: instead, the Pope made...