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...urban Jewish life ("Fortunately, Molly never has to be too accurate"). Over the years, the Goldbergs' fan letters (several thousand a month) have maintained a steady 50-50 average between Jews and non-Jews. Mrs. Berg likes to recall the time the Mother Superior of a Philadelphia convent wrote to ask for a synopsis of six weeks' programs. "She said the nuns were regular listeners but they'd given up the Goldbergs for Lent and now they were wondering what had happened...
...rising to power. When Hitler was about to visit Cologne in 1933, his fanatic followers draped the great Rhine bridge with huge swastikas. Adenauer ordered his police to tear them down. Goring promptly ordered Adenauer's discharge from office and banishment from Cologne. Adenauer found asylum in a convent on an island down the Rhine...
...landlocked San Marino as head of a shipping firm. He moved in a year and a half ago, lives quietly with his mistress in a rented stone bungalow. He wears yellow velvet gloves, talks more on the long-distance telephone than anyone else in the republic. From the Convent of St. Francis, Maxim has been seen slipping into the Communist casino's back door. A black-bearded monk summed up the general suspicion. "Here in San Marino," he said, "there exists Bolshevism in yellow velvet gloves, but still Bolshevism. It is directed by Maximo Maxim...
...struggling young artist, Mexico's Escuela Universitaria de Bellas Artes had a good deal to offer. Housed in an ancient convent in the sunny, spired old town of San Miguel de Allende, 150 miles northwest of Mexico City, its cheap, comfortable living and picturesque setting got it wide publicity as a G.I. students' paradise (TIME, March 29, 1948). Over 100 U.S. veterans have flocked south to enroll. But during the past year, San Miguel's sleepy decorum has been shattered by one ruckus after another. Last week the school had more trouble than it could handle...
Sleeping Couple. Last week, as the government's Institute Nacional de Bellas Artes (which owns the convent) was investigating Siqueiros' charges, new and more serious trouble struck San Miguel. In the course of a drunken party, Mrs. Joan McHugh, a 23-year old student from Pittsburgh, accused Leonard Zurnis, a Brooklyn ex-G.L, of trying to seduce her. Later in the evening Mrs. McHugh passed out. When her husband Daniel entered the room a few minutes later, he found Zurnis asleep beside her. A brawl began; Zurnis ended up with a broken nose and fractured skull, died...