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Last spring, bedded in Massachusetts General Hospital after his celebrated hip operation, Godfrey watched over his flock by television, decided that one of his Little Godfreys-chunky, curly-haired Baritone Julius La Rosa, 23, an ex-bluejacket whose career he had launched two years ago-was getting a little cocky. He told CBS President Frank Stanton that Julius would get a good talking to. Fortnight ago, when Godfrey learned that La Rosa had flouted one of his rules by signing up with his own agent, he had a new report for the boss. "Arthur called me at home Saturday night...
...young man, Vincent Van Gogh, the son of a Calvinist minister, worked as a lay preacher among the poor coal miners of Belgium. At 26 he was dismissed by church authorities because his methods were too unorthodox (e.g., he gave his money, his clothes, even his bed to his flock). But for the rest of his short (1853-90), tormented life, Van Gogh's art showed a religious fervor that made his work leap from the canvas into the heart...
...ever. Though there was virtually no unemployment and the wine industry was flourishing, Gaggio di Piano gave the Christian Democrats only 161 votes against 1,020 for the Communist Party. Don Giuseppe decided that what he needed was a working-class appeal. He began buttonholing members of his infidel flock and telling them: "The essence of Christianity is work-material as well as spiritual. Why, Christ himself was a worker for 30 of his 33 years." Somewhat to his surprise, a few of the infidels listened...
...R.O.T.C. college graduates, educated at Navy expense and eligible this year for regular commissions, only 10% applied. Said former Joint Chiefs Chairman Omar Bradley, at a congressional hearing last July: "If you removed today the prohibition against resigning from the [Regular] service, I think you would find a whole flock of resignations coming...
Marshalling their bureaucratic ingenuity, the Registrar's Office, the Dean's Office and the Alumni records Office have over the years concocted a scheme skillfully designed to keep track of their flock. A relatively simple plan, it requires 12 cards in 12 different filing cabinets spread through eight offices, for each of the 10,000 students in the university and works something like this...