Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Vega joined the Mexican Catholics in 1945, and two years later went to the U.S. to study at the Episcopalians' Virginia Theological Seminary. Two years ago he took charge of the pastorless flock in McKinney...
Everybody likes Sisters Mary Jeanne Madeleine and Mary Francis Terese of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi. At Milwaukee's Cardinal Stritch College, music students flock to them; and for the children of St. John's School for the Deaf, the day they come to teach is the high point of the week. The sisters (who are twins) can feel the smiles that greet them as they rustle into a room. But they cannot see the smiles, for they are almost totally blind...
...flock of Moors, Hall girls fell prey to the Death about three weeks ago, but the current attack is apparently limited to Barnard and Briggs...
Queenly Plucking. Patiently, Ostrichman Rose learned all the habits and hazards of his birds.* He managed to keep his flock together, cashed in on each tiny feather boomlet as it appeared. In 1931, the Empress Eugenie hat style started a flurry in feathers. In 1947, Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth helped start the present revival by visiting Oudtshoorn, praising feathers and publicly plucking an ostrich. This year, Manhattan's Walter Florell ("the mood at the moment is to look bold") is trimming hats with Lillian Russell-sized plumes (see cut). But he has tuned them to the 20th...
Chief subject of anxious speculation among Hong Kong's Catholic refugees last week was the forthcoming trial of Bishop Ford. Fifty-eight-year-old Bishop Francis Ford of the Maryknoll Fathers has worked in Kwangtung since 1918. In 20 years, his flock rose from 9,000 to 20,000. Bishop Ford introduced cement masonry to the Chinese under his care; he built schools, hostels and churches, which he preferred to have designed according to Chinese rather than western standards of architecture. During World War II, he stayed on the job helping Chinese guerrillas and organizing escape routes for downed...