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...fragment. Chicago's Frank Cross, a Presbyterian, spent 19 months working at the Scrollery, hopes to go back soon, as will Catholic University's Msgr. Patrick W. Skehan and young (26) British Scholar John Strugnell, a Presbyterian. The atmosphere at the Scrollery is probably unique. Says Lutheran Claus-Hunno Hunzinger, of Germany's University of Gottingen: "Every now and then one of us here will discover something new, and will cry out, and everyone will crowd around to discuss and suggest. It's the only situation I know in the study of the humanities where scholars...
...Peace exhibition that he brought to Hiroshima last year is still going the rounds. He has staged concerts by the First Marine Air Wing Drum and Bugle Corps, started a series of seminars on American culture, a Japanese-American folk-dance program. Last Christmas he dressed up as Santa Claus, visited the orphanages in town to distribute gifts...
Mashed Finger. "When I was four," Reporter McCluggage says, "I asked Santa Claus for a doll on roller skates and an Austin." Growing up in Topeka, Kans., she was a determined tomboy, mashed the end of a finger playing softball, and was easily "the best blocking back on the block." At Mills College near San Francisco she won a Phi Beta Kappa key as a philosophy major, and after graduating in 1947 decided to become a reporter. She haunted the San Francisco Chronicle city room for six months before penetrating the conventional misogyny of the craft and persuading the weekly...
...that there is a character known as the 'loyal employee,' and this is a fellow who is supposed to figure that joining the union is a fate worse than death. Well, this man is in the same category, in my opinion, as the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. I've never found...
...reserved down-East folk; they liked his jolly ways, his eagerness to participate in North Haven affairs. He formed a Sea Scout troop, ran Sunday school at the local Baptist church with a gentle, knowing hand. At Christmastime, he rented a post-office box in the name of Santa Claus, gathered up letters from the children, wrote genial replies to each one. bought and distributed gifts for the poor. And then, one day last week, the state police came and quietly led him away...