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After predicting Loyola's wins over Duke and Cincinnati, the CRIMSON is tampted to gloat and say, "We told you so." So here goes: we told...
Historian Nigg points out that Protestants have no reason to gloat over the record of Roman Catholic intolerance. The Reformation brought freedom back to Christianity-but the Reformers seldom permitted this freedom to those who disagreed with them. Martin Luther argued that it was just for civil authorities to kill and exile the Anabaptists. Calvin actively worked for the condemnation and death of Michael Servetus, a brilliant Spanish physician whose denial of belief in the Trinity made him the first modern Unitarian. Both Catholics and Protestants must share the blame for what Nigg calls "one of the most shocking periods...
...cats. Said Good-Wilier Good man: "It shows a terrible weakness on their part, doesn't it?" Back from an eleven-day Far Eastern swing, Thomas J. Deegan Jr., 51, chair man of the $225 million New York World's Fair of 1964-65, had reason to gloat. Private groups in Britain, France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands had just ordered space for exhibits. South Korea signed up, and so did Japan and Hong Kong. With those additions, the total number of nations that will be represented climbed...
...statement on the growing Boston Common garage scandal. Six men had been indicted and he promised to try the case before leaving his present office, but then he asked into the phone: "You want me to say it's fine?...that justice has been served? Well, you can't gloat because six poor souls find themselves in a mess...
...A.N.P.A. was inclined to gloat over 1961's showing, it had little time to do so. Scarcely had the new year begun when two Los Angeles dailies -Hearst's Examiner and Norman Chandler's Mirror (TIME, Jan. 12)-died, leaving America's third largest city with only one morning paper and one in the afternoon. Last week a group headed by Marvin J. McConnell, who puts out a western twice-monthly trade paper (Small Busi ness News), announced plans to start an independent, five-day-a-week afternoon tabloid called the Post to challenge Hearst...