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Died. Clint ("Scrap Iron") Courtney, 48, pugnacious American League catcher of the 1950s and early 1960s; of an apparent heart attack; in Rochester, while on the road with the minor-league Richmond Braves, which he had managed since 1973. For more than a decade, Courtney played with six clubs, compiling a record of near-flawless fielding and clutch hitting. A relentless belligerence earned him his nickname and triggered some of baseball's most violent brouhahas, notably a game-stopping 1953 free-for-all at Busch Stadium that began when Courtney, then playing for the old St. Louis Browns, spiked...
Woodstock led; it did not follow. Its theological superstars paced U.S. Catholicism into Vatican II thinking before the Second Vatican Council existed. Woodstock's Gustave Weigel was more than anyone else the father of American Catholic ecumenism. The late John Courtney Murray, the nation's most brilliant Catholic political thinker, was the prime inspiration behind Vatican II's decree on religious liberty...
Marriages, children, friends, slices of moderately high life are scattered through the book, along with references to Luce's indifference to food and small talk, and his yearning to win at tennis and golf. Once, as Luce teed off against the Rev. John Courtney Murray and Emmet John Hughes, Murray remarked to Hughes: "You are looking at the only man I know who can will a golf ball 200 yards...
...Democratic Policy Council, a group organized to formulate party policies, has some recommendations. Says Courtney Evans, a council member who is a former assistant director of the FBI: "Some way must be found to maintain the integrity of the FBI, at the same time providing policy guidance and direction in security and intelligence investigations, particularly in areas where there is likely to be a legitimate difference between freedom for individual citizens and security for the Government itself...
...Courtney B. Cazden became the second tenured woman in the Graduate School of Education when the Board of Overseers last week approved her appointment to full professorship. The Ed School is 47 per cent female...