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...What great trouble we are in now!" sighed Rabbi Levin, venerable editor of the Talmudic Encyclopedia. "For us, two Jews remain two Jews no matter what they do. And it is a Jewish duty to try and save life. Could we know it was the Communists who guided our pens? We are not politicians...
...Described in the official Soviet encyclopedia as a bat-and-ball game played on a broad field with "cities" marked off at either end. "The players in turn . . . knock a ball up and ahead and, during its flight, run around to the 'city' of the opposing team and back. The opponents try to catch the ball and strike the runner with...
...Cardinal Spellman stood last week before 200 assembled notables to dedicate an impressive gift. Everyone on hand knew the value of the 100,000 photographs and 500,000 duplicate catalogue cards that had come from the U.S. "It is," said one Vatican scholar, "just as if an encyclopedia had never existed before, and the first encyclopedia had just been issued." The gift the cardinal was presenting: a complete copy of Princeton's massive Index of Christian...
...According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Pope Alexander VI had at least four illegitimate children...
...help. At police headquarters he turned the keys of his car over to a policeman, "in case something happens to me." In an old air-raid shelter near by, Reichert, assisted by two cops, gingerly opened the parcel and took out Volume L-Z of a standard German encyclopedia. "Hmm," wondered a cop, "why would anyone send the Chancellor an encyclopedia?" A moment later, a blinding flash hurled him to the wall; two hours later, Reichert was dead from the bomb meant for Chancellor Adenauer...