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Mindszenty, the son of a poor peasant, had risen to the highest church office in his land. Some of Hungary's peasants, who used to flock together in crowds of 45,000 to hear him speak, have seen him, even in recent years, working the land at his mother's five-acre farm in the village of Mindzent. Hungarians, who were now asked to believe that Mindszenty was an anti-Semite, remembered his courageous wartime sermons attacking Naziism, in which he declared that "antiSemitism and the proceedings against the Jews are the shame of civilization...
...there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night...
Father Divine added Philadelphia's 54-year-old, ten-story Lorraine Hotel to his flock's big, heavenly real-estate holdings. Making a visitation with his blonde wife and some of his "angels," he announced a new regime in Lorraine management: no drinking, profanity, or smoking, segregation of the sexes by floors. To a $25,000 cash deposit, the purchasing angels added cardboard boxes containing small bills. After two hours, four bank employees had counted...
...Since our beginning we've grown," commented president-elect Brown. "Under the new system we will get a chance to look over the flock of new competitors and decide who can work...
Down at Brown, Coach Bob Morris is counting on a flock of sophomores to stop the Crimson. Co-Captains Jim Cooney and Al Kovachik are the only two seniors on the team...