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...priesthood; and that business of the new "game" in Naples inspires me with naught but shame and disgust that one of the Church's servants should so distort the spirit of the Holy Year (any year, for that matter) with so grotesque an exhibition of bigotry . . . Jesuit Inventor Sergio de Gioia does little, if anything, to enhance his Roman collar. I think he disgraces it. WILLIAM FAHEY Seminary of Philosophy Montreal, Canada...
Last week in Chicago federal district court, the U.S. Government was finally taking official, disapproving notice of the Magic Spike. Inventor Nelson's son, Robert T. Nelson Jr., and his partner George C. Erickson were on trial, charged, under the Pure Food and Drug Act, with "false and misleading" claims about the gadget's powers (maximum penalty: a year in jail...
...Thomas E. Murray, a prominent Catholic layman and wealthy Manhattan engineer and inventor who ran New York City's big I.R.T. subway system for eight years. Murray, 58, was the first public trustee of John L. Lewis' multimillion-dollar United Mine Workers welfare fund until he tiffed with John L. and quit...
...world's gastronomic jargon was created in the 18th and 19th Centuries by log-rolling cooks to commemorate their masters' favorite dishes. Some European aristocrats were also amateur cooks and imposed their names on their concoctions, e.g., Count Stroganoff, a 19th Century Russian diplomat and inventor of Beef Stroganoff.* Sometimes chefs also designated dishes in honor of great events, e.g., Pheasant a la Holy Alliance...
...theory is that when a person sleeps, his subconscious is still open to suggestion and can therefore learn. To prove it, sleep-learning promoters, including Inventor Sherover, have been out collecting endorsements. Alexander (Victory Through Air Power) de Seversky declares that a sleep machine helped cure his Russian accent. Rudy Vallee is using one to learn lines and lyrics. One housewife solemnly reported that, by placing a machine under her husband's pillow, she had taught him to like salad...