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...administrative hand to the University which Bishop Ryan endeavored to make a Catholic Harvard or Yale. Philadelphia-born, he studied, like many another able young U. S. seminarian, at the North American College in Rome, was ordained priest there 33 years ago. Returning to Philadelphia, he became an ecclesiastical handyman and good personal friend of Denis Cardinal Dougherty. Father Corrigan worked among Italians, published a newspaper called La Verita, taught Dogmatic Theology at St. Charles, was diocesan censor of books, moderator of priests in conference, presiding judge of the diocesan matrimonial court and finally chancellor of the diocese. A brilliant...
...handling and comprehension of words, even for physical strength and "fancifulness." In all but the last two, Psychologist Spearman found the scores affected by a general factor which he called G. This G appeared to be an innate fund of mental energy, a sort of all-around cerebral handyman at the service of special endeavors and special abilities. Thus a person's proficiency at poker, for example, is the result of his G supply plus his special talent for poker. This becomes a simple equation...
Petticoat Fever (by Mark Reed; Alfred de Liagre Jr. & Richard Aldrich, producers) starts its merry nonsense when a rising curtain discloses handsome silver-voiced Dennis King (Richard of Bordeaux) lying on a couch in a Labrador radio station talking to his Eskimo handyman (Chinese Peter Goo Chong). Actor King impersonates Dascom Dinsmore, an errant remittance man, who has not seen a pretty woman in the two years he has been in Labrador. He is irritably contemplating the rigors of another long winter without female society when his shanty suddenly takes on the atmosphere of a Long Island week-end house...
...airplane accident suddenly introduces a bumbling nobleman and his pretty fiancee. The Eskimo handyman, worried about his boss's sex life, has meantime imported two native women from a distant mission. Then a sealer arrives with the young woman who jilted Dascom Dinsmore two years before. Broad as a snowshoe, the farce finally soars off into fantasy with a big double wedding. First-week audiences clapped their delight at Dennis King's fresh talent for comedy, were likewise appreciative when he took time out to sing a song in his best light opera manner...
...went to a dramatic school for a short while, later made a precarious living by giving Shakespearean readings to Negro audiences in Canada. The next 40 years he spent as a dining car waiter on the Santa Fe running between Chicago and Los Angeles, as a police station handyman in Chicago, as a wanderer in the Deep South. At intervals he taught dramatics at North Carolina Agriculture & Engineering College, Branch Normal (Arkansas) and Flipper-Key College (Oklahoma). Mostly he made his headquarters around Haines Institute at Augusta, Ga. At commencement time he would put on plays. In return, Headmistress Lucy...