Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engine, pounding for altitude, sputtered and conked out. There was no chance to get back to the field; Pilot Cockrill made the best of his only choice. He set the plane down on its belly into the mottled, moonlit sea, a mile from shore, 400 yards from a small island. The lights went out. In the black horror of the cabin many of the Puerto Ricans, chained to their seats by terror, just prayed and waited...
Hymns and Shinja. Last week, the soul of St. Francis Xavier-and part of his body-were again at work on the island of Japan. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Xavier's landing, a party of 75 foreign notables, including bishops, priests and laymen, had come bearing with them St. Francis Xavier's right forearm in a gold, glass-paneled reliquary. Scheduled to visit most of Japan's major cities, the pilgrims were making a 17-day tour that will end next week with a Pontifical High Mass in Tokyo's Meiji Stadium...
Tangible Reminder. The right arm of St. Francis Xavier, flown from Rome by the Jesuit Order for the occasion, was severed at the elbow in 1614 and brought to Rome as a relic. The saint's body rests on the tiny Portuguese-Indian island of Goa, which had been his mission headquarters. It is exposed for public veneration once every ten years...
This week the International Missionary Council, biggest organization in the Protestant and orthodox missions field, proudly announced some cheerful statistics. The number of practicing Protestants in missionary areas (120 countries and island groups outside the English-speaking countries and Europe) has risen from 6,517,697, when the council first officially counted the flock in 1925, to 25,341,283 in 1948, an impressive increase...
Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 38, Irish-born cinemactress, sometime cine-mate of Tarzan, and John Villiers Farrow, 43, Australian-born Hollywood writer-director (Wake Island, The Big Clock): their sixth child, third daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Stephanie Margarita. Weight...