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Ralph 124C 41+ and Immortality. Born in Luxembourg, Hugo took an electric bell apart at the age of six. At 13 he was allowed to install a telephone system in a Luxembourg convent (he says he got a special dispensation to enter it from Pope Leo XIII). At 22, having moved to Manhattan, he built one of the first amateur wireless transmitters with which he could ring a bell a quarter of a mile away. But then Hugo's imagination began outstripping his technical resources...
...Middlewestern middle-class girl you might see crossing any Eastern campus because that is exactly what she is. Daughter of an Omaha lawyer, isolated in her early teens first by her parents' divorce and then her father's tragic death, she was educated in an Indianapolis convent school and at Pine Manor Junior College at Wellesley, Mass...
...Indiana. Upon his ordination in 1924, he began his ministry in the diocese of Corpus Christi, Texas, ultimately becoming chancellor to the bishop and pastor of gigantic St. Peter's Church, Laredo, where his interest in education has found expression in the founding of a parochial school and a convent academy, both accredited to the University of Texas. For the past ten years, prior to his detail as instructor at the Chaplain School two months ago, he has been a chaplain in the Texas National Guard (36th Division...
...soup from a standing position. It wasn't a stunt; it was a natural and innocent way of bringing the gathering into proper focus. Father John Barrymore and Mother Michael Strange were divorced when Diana was seven. From seven to twelve she was entombed in a Parisian convent school. She subsequently attended the Garrison-Forest School near Baltimore, which nearly went out of business once when Father John paid her a call. She also had a go at Manhattan's Brearley and a string of other seminaries...
...distinguish between truth, fraud and demonism, had also its own safe-playing dread of scientists and statesmen to contend with. The Church most scrupulously anatomized Bernadette's miraculous possibilities, but was also most bewildered how to handle her. She was funneled off into the untouchable silence of a convent, where she devoutly suffered the slow agonies of tuberculosis of the bone and died at 35. But at her exhumation, in 1925, her body was as uncorrupted as every word she had spoken in life...