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...realize that these shock troops were not enough. Since Pius IX (1846-78), all the Popes have urged the rank & file of Catholics to the front lines-through Catholic Action, defined as "lay participation in the apostolate of the hierarchy." Last week the Church's outstanding lay expert on Catholic Action, Paul McGuire of Adelaide, Australia, was in the U. S. on a coast-to-coast lecture tour, to expound the lay apostolate under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus-itself an excellent example of Catholic Action...
Figure skaters compete in three classes (novice, junior and senior) according to their ability. At the national championships last week only five women, all under 21, were expert enough to compete for the women's senior title: Boston's Joan Tozzer and Polly Blodgett, Manhattan's Charlotte Walther and Audrey Peppe and Philadelphia's Jane Vaughn...
Massachusetts' educators and press and the National Education Association howled. This did not disturb Mr. Reardon, who proceeded to replace Dr. Smith's expert staff with "homebred" applicants. He sneered at Harvard professors, fought a bill to raise the compulsory school age to 16, championed a teachers' oath law. His critics fell silent, waited for a whirlwind. Last week it appeared that a hurricane would be Mr. Reardon's undoing...
...last fall, said he, Governor Charles Francis Hurley told him: "You're not an expert. . . . Mr. Varney is not an expert. We need a man to take charge of this." Selected to "take charge'' was Architect Edward T. P. Graham, who had previously done work for Boston politicians. Month later, said Commissioner Reardon, Governor Hurley telephoned him: "Mr. Graham is on his way to your office with the contracts. You stay there and sign them...
Henry Sigerist is considered by many to be the world's greatest medical historian. He reads 14 languages, has taught and lectured from Cornell University to Zurich, is an expert on such things as medieval prescriptions and the 16th-Century treatment of gunshot wounds. To Dr. Sigerist, however, medicine is not only a science whose triumphs are technical improvements, but a service whose success is measured by the ability of a small group of men to make mankind's life more livable. Even in his first enthusiasm over the U. S., Dr. Sigerist felt medical care was unevenly...