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...crime of Fray Efren de la Madre de Dios, in the eyes of Avila, had been to state flatly that St. Teresa was not born in Avila (where tourists are shown the very room she first opened her eyes in) but at her family's winter place in Gottarendura, some eight miles away. And, as if this were not enough, Fray Efren claimed that Teresa's grandfather had lived under a cloud for having converted himself and his family to Judaism (probably for business reasons), though later, under the urgings of the Inquisition, he repented and rejoined...
Among the paintings on exhibition are El Greco's "Fray Felix Hortension Palavicino," Van Der Weyden's "St. Luke Painting the Madonna," and Titian's "St. Catherine of Alexandria...
Columbia could, if Little so desired, turn the game into a wholly ethereal fray, because both junior quarterback Mitch Price and his veteran substitute, Kermit Tracy, are more than passing fair from the Columbia...
...Guatemalans were beginning to wonder whether Arbenz wanted to save the nation from the Red totalitarians. No Communist himself, he seemed to be a prisoner of the Communist bureaucrats, politicos and union bosses who grabbed power during the Arevalo regime. Said a student wounded during last week's fray: "We Guatemalans must face up to the fact that ours is the only country west of the Iron Curtain where peaceful anti-Communist demonstrators are dispersed by government bullets...
...disputatious Arabs and Jews to get together and "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit." He cannot match India's Sir Benegal Rau in subtlety and sophistication. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb is his superior in verbal riposte. But Austin sallies into U.N.'s polemic fray with certain granitelike inner qualities: tenacity, common sense, Old Testament righteousness, and a God-fearing faith in the cause of freedom and collective security...