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That said, the 58-year-old widow -- mother of four, grandmother of nine, devout Catholic, independent businesswoman -- smiled broadly, her eyes fairly twinkled, and she added, "Besides, if they took me to the nuthouse now they'd have to take thousands with...
John's father owned a tavern--the Queen'sHead--and was a butcher by trade; indeed theHarvard family had been a family of butchers formany generations. The Harvards were moderatePuritans--devout but not all that concerned withceremonies...
...Mans, France, last week featured sketches by two designers who were asked to envision something with "more presence, prestige and modernity" for priests presiding at altars of the future. No impious exercise, the designs were commissioned by a committee of bishops, priests and art historians; the designers consider themselves devout Catholics, and approached their task with missionary zeal...
...Clement VI (1342-52), who proclaimed that his predecessors "had not known how to be Popes" and then began staging bacchanalia for his "niece" and his courtiers, Kelly says judiciously, "The charges brought by contemporaries against his sexual life cannot be explained away, but he was personally devout, a protector of the poor and needy who showed charity and courage when the Black Death appeared at Avignon in 1348-49, and defended the Jews when they were blamed for it." So he did know something about how to be Pope after...
RHODES. James Daughdrill, head of little (1,060 students) Rhodes College in Memphis, is a devout bottom-liner. President at age 25 of a $17 million carpet and textile business, he chucked it all in 1964 to study for the Presbyterian ministry, then in 1973 took charge of an obscure, financially rocky college called Southwestern at Memphis. In his first year he turned an operating deficit of $1.2 million into black ink, and has not been in the red since. In 1978 he took on the faculty and eliminated an all but automatic tenure system that Daughdrill says "made...