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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give Holy Communion to the patient and to be present with the doctor concerned so as to share the responsibility." It is "nonsense," he added, to hold that death "should be 'left to God.' Do we leave birth to God?" Replied Roman Catholic Bishop George P. Dwyer of Leeds: "A doctor may give a drug to relieve pain, even if he foresees that the life of the patient may be shortened thereby . . . But death must always be indirect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Birth & Death | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...rich and famed Jazz Age bootlegger, peer and sometime friend of the best names in the blue book of U.S. crime: Dutch Schultz. Louis (Lepke) Buchalter. Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Al Capone. In 1951 New York City's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer linked him with the Brooklyn syndicate, Murder Inc. The US. Government indicted him in 1954 for income tax evasion. But Longie was no rap-rack (six months behind bars in his life): he lived in the white space around the letter of the law. Married to a handsome blonde Junior Leaguer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 9, 1959 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Columbia, on the other hand, has dropped its last eight in a row, after winning its opening contest. The Lions have nothing much beyond their young coach, Archie Oldham, who probably wishes that Chet Forte and Ted Dwyer were still around...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Varsity Five to Play Here Against Cornell, Columbia | 1/9/1959 | See Source »

Bishop Robert Dwyer's comment that cathedrals must go [Sept. 1] reveals that he, too, has yielded to the secular pressure of modern life. The great cathedrals of Europe were built by men of faith and devotion. The one comment that might be made about the church of today is that it has ceased to build cathedrals; faith and devotion are lacking. Men no longer believe; so they don't build. But let's build more cathedrals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1958 | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Cathedrals (which take their name from cathedra, a bishop's chair or throne) must go, said a bishop last week. Reno's Roman Catholic Bishop Robert J. Dwyer, who blasted Nevada's nightclub nudity last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 18), told a study group in Cincinnati that the concept underlying the cathedral has "lost its reference and validity for the age we live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death to the Cathedral | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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