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...possible careers in religions work of all kinds, including institutional and missionary work, and the duties of a parish priest. Speakers at the meeting will be: The Reverend Charles W. Gilkey, Dean of the University of Chicago Chapel, Emeritus, and now at the Andover-Newton Theological School; Father Cornelius T. Sherlock, Diocesan Superintendent of Catholic Schools in Boston; and Rabbi Murico L. Zigmond, Director of B'nal B'rith Hillel Foundation...
...guests like to entertain each other. At Perle Mesta's parties, Harry Truman has played the piano, General Ike Eisenhower has sung Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (in a shaky baritone), Pat Hurley, without too much encouragement, has given his Comanche war whoop, and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has whistled in a duet...
...June day in 1947, Manhattan Physician Cornelius Traeger suddenly took leave of his host, Sinclair Lewis, to visit a patient: "I have a feeling that Johnny Gunther will die this weekend." Johnny did die, of a brain tumor that more than a dozen doctors had fought unsuccessfully for 15 months. Johnny was only 17, a tall, good-looking, skinny kid who had graduated from Deerfield Academy and planned to enter Harvard that fall...
Back at the factory, Nijverdal's union leaders felt the same way. "Before help came last spring," said Cornelius Kalkhoven, company representative of the Christian National Federation of Trade Unions, "you could feel the tension through your wooden shoes." Said the Catholic union's young Hendrik Grondman: "Our men will never go back to the peat bogs...
...Send me cigars-they are my food," Finnish Composer Jean Sibelius had said. This week, U.S. admirers had sent him 83 boxes of cigars (plus two humidors) for his 83rd birthday. Among the donors: Tallulah Bankhead, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Carmen Miranda, Thomas J. Watson, Sergei Koussevitzky, Marian Anderson, Lawrence Tibbett. Said a spokesman for the National Arts Foundation, which is handling the collection: "We intend to keep Sibelius in cigars for life...