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...That is what I have always wanted in Chicago," the late, great Cardinal Mundelein cried when he heard about the Ladies of the Grail-a new Roman Catholic religious order whose members wear modern women's clothes and devote their lives of chastity, poverty and obedience primarily to social service among working girls. So last week the Ladies of the Grail began training their first group of U.S. aspirants on a great estate near Chicago given them by Cardinal Mundelein's energetic, liberal-minded right hand, Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil...
Died. Gustavus Augustus Eisen, 93, Swedish-American biologist (he corresponded with Darwin, found a way to raise figs in California, got Sequoia National Park created to save the big trees), archeologist (he dug up weighty evidence to prove that the Chalice of Antioch was Sir Galahad's Grail), author (he published some no works, the last a huge monograph on Mesopotamian Cylinder-Seals); in Manhattan...
...county. His neighbors, hearing of his discovery, were more anxious to get the gold than the gospel. When Joseph Smith explained he had returned his treasure to Moroni, mobs dug up most of Hill Cumorah without finding the plates-which have since been as elusive as the Holy Grail. Irate, they drove Prophet Smith out of New York...
...mighty sticky, but leave me what's left of my girlish romanticism. Your articles have been fair, direct and intensely interesting, and now you, my Galahad, that I have cheered on in your quest for truth, have (oh, boor that you really are) spit in the Holy Grail. That tacky, smart-alecky corruption of the King and Queen's visit! Bad, bad taste...
Veritas. The Vagabond thought of it again. It was perhaps the only word that he held sacred, a sort of twentieth century Grail, yet it was more than that. It was the key to all understanding. It was something ageless, terribly elusive, retreating, perhaps. So many men, almost every man, had sought it. Had any one of them found it? Were we any nearer it than we had ever been? Were we going in the right direction? And the Vagabond found himself murmuring the words of Montaigne, "Que scais...