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...priesthood 30-odd years ago, Father Rosi joined a missionary order noted for its work among the Papuan Islanders-the Congregation du Sacré-Coeur d'lssoudun. But instead of sending him forth to convert the heathen, his superiors appointed him mathematics professor at the order's Collège de Thoissey, of which he eventually became director...
...Joan. Skipping out on the wars, despite a pledge to the King to fight on, Gilles returned to Tiffauges, lived it up with gold borrowed from a cousin to "pay the soldiers," raised a traveling troupe of actors to glorify the exploits of Joan (and Gilles), and established "La Collégiale," a huge choir of children who sang religious songs. As his money melted away and the irritated King declared him a "spendthrift.'' Gilles turned to alchemy in the hope of paying his debts...
...heredity of an organism be altered after conception? This age-old problem has now been attacked from a new angle: ducks. The doers are Professor Jacques Benoit, who holds the chair of histophysiology in the Collège de France and has studied the reproduction of ducks for 20 years, and Pierre Leroy, a Jesuit priest-biologist and refugee from Red China...
Washington Coll. (Chestertown, Md.) Dwight D. Eisenhower . . . . . LL.D...
...Larousse spent a lifetime preparing for his dictionary. The crotchety son of a hotelkeeper in Toucy, he moved to the Paris Latin Quarter just so he could study. Each morning for eight years, he would emerge from his dingy room, make a tour of lectures at the Sorbonne, the Collège de France, the Observatory, and then, after 6, retire to the library to study some more. After a stint of teaching, he began writing textbooks on Latin, Greek, and French grammar, finally hit upon the idea of a dictionary-encyclopedia. Crouched behind his desk, he worked 16 hours...