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...alliance with De Gaulle was more natural than might appear. Both men-the devout Catholic De Gaulle, the devout humanist Malraux-were deeply conscious of the need for a new mission for France; both were deeply disillusioned by the powerlessness of the French parliamentarianism which had supinely handed over power to a Pétain, and was now supine before the challenge of liberation. While De Gaulle brooded in the background, Malraux was the most eloquent voice of the Gaullist R.P.F...
When 17-year-old Yasujiro Aoki was told that he had leprosy, he did what a devout Buddhist should. Dressed in white robes and carrying a walking stick, he made a lengthy pilgrimage to the 88 holy places of Buddhism on his native Japanese island of Shikoku, visiting each three times. But at the end of the last lap, having found no cure, he did what a devout Buddhist should not: he turned in at the gate of an Anglican missionary hospital...
...devout Quaker, he seemed just the man for the nation's oldest Quaker college. He knew all his 450 students by name, and on Campus Day, when students and facultymen don old clothes to work at some campus building project, President White was out there hammering with the rest of them. Though he looked like an undergraduate himself, he managed to give Haverford some of the happiest years of its life. He raised faculty salaries quadrupled scholarships, more than doubled the endowment to $10 million. He served as vice chairman of the American Friends Service Committee, was adviser...
...trying to spot them by their black socks and clumsily knotted neckties), some ventured boldly out in cassocks. Most of the arrested priests were hastily freed. The government sent policemen to guard churches, including those burned by angry Peronista mobs after the revolt, and the guards amiably let the devout decorate the ruined churches with lovingly placed bouquets of carnations and chrysanthemums...
...publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Amon G. (for Giles) Carter, devout Texan, found it easy to explain his paper's success. "We get out a newspaper," he said, "that fits our city." Carter's formula, while it did not make the Star-Telegram a famous daily, made it a good one. But his rare combination of showmanship, artful buffoonery and open-handed generosity virtually made Cow-Town Fort Worth a city. Dressed in his ten-gallon hat and cream-colored polo coat, Amon Carter sang Fort Worth's praise all over the world, while passing...