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Died. Roy Best, 54, keg-shaped, iron-fisted,warden of Colorado's Canon City penitentiary; of a heart attack; near Colorado Springs. A onetime cowpuncher, he took charge of the penitentiary in 1932, quickly became the boy wonder of U.S. wardens. Discarding traditional convicts' stripes, he served good food, set up shops to keep prisoners busy and make the prison pay. Fond of the whip and the lash, he boasted that he was tougher than any convict, two years ago was indicted (but never convicted) for flogging five would-be escapees...
Rise of a Country Priest. The Bishop of Treviso surprised everyone and irritated some by making young Don Sarto a canon-a post hitherto held exclusively by noblemen. In his first speech before the Treviso seminary as its spiritual instructor he said: "I am no professor, just a country priest, whom God has most unaccountably brought among you. Remember that study and knowledge and science, excellent things in themselves, are perverted if they become objects of pride...
...letter apologizing to him and paying $2,100 to a charity he designated. Writer Tracy was also infuriated when the Sunday Times printed an abject retraction in which the paper "admitted" that her article was "an unjustifiable attack on the character and posi tion" of Doneraile's Canon Maurice O'Connell. Indignant that the Sunday Times had disavowed her story without consulting her or trying to check the truth of the piece, Honor Tracy filed her own: libel suit. Defendant: the Sunday Times. Charge: damage to the professional reputation of Writer Tracy...
...Third Way. Rosenzweig's Judaism did not lead him to orthodoxy any more than to philosophic liberalism. The Jew, wrote Rosenzweig, must free himself from "recipes . . . those stupid claims that would impose Juda-'ism' on him as a canon of definite, circumscribed 'Jewish duties' [i.e., orthodoxy as he saw it], or 'Jewish tasks' [Zionism as he saw it], or 'Jewish ideas' [liberalism] . . . There is one recipe alone that can make a person Jewish and hence, because he is a Jew and destined to a Jewish life-a full human being; that...
...Married. Canon Charles Earle Raven, 68, chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, one-time vice chancellor (top administrator) of Cambridge University (1947-49); and Ethel Lyman Paine Moors, 82, widow of millionaire Boston Financier John F. Moors (who died last March); each for the second time; in Boston...