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Word got around. Before long, Cheshire's cousin's janitor's wife's bedridden grandmother joined them. "She was as deaf as a post, and I had to shout at her the whole time. She would talk to me about her cat and keep saying, 'I want to go home. I want to go home.' One afternoon she suddenly threw her arms around me and said, 'I love you.' I was a bit surprised, but I hugged her back and shouted, 'I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Target for a Lifetime | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

Giuseppe Sarto was a poor boy. His father earned 50? a day as municipal messenger and janitor for the Italian town of Riese, near Venice, and his mother made clothes for the local farmers and laborers. When Giuseppe walked the four miles to secondary school and back each day he used to take off his shoes and carry them to save the leather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Name in the Book | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...people genuinely liked him. The only three who could be located are Pete and Charlie of the Crimson Men's Shop, who both remember him as a "really nice fellow," and Tony Vento, the Adams House janitor who served as Schine's valet...

Author: By World Wide, | Title: Schine at Harvard: Boy With the Baton | 5/7/1954 | See Source »

Governor Alexander, now 65, was born in Ottumwa, Iowa. The son of a janitor, he worked his way through the University of Iowa, was a three-letter football tackle, graduated in engineering in 1912. He formed his own contracting business two years later and is now head of prosperous Alexander & Repass, builders (among many projects) of Washington's K Street Freeway along the Potomac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGIN ISLANDS: Governor of All | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...trying to sell the AFL to everybody, and he wasn't doing it for nothing; so we put it to him. 'Resign or we'll boot you out," the Weld Hall janitor and HUERA president said...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: AFL Launches Drive for University's Employees | 3/5/1954 | See Source »

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