Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe Class of 1971 has elected its officers. Co-presidents are Joan Friedman of Currier and Manhasset, New York, and Christine Jones of Currier and Dayton, Ohio; secretary is Susan Johnson of Adams and New Haven, Connecticut; and treasurer is Margot Roosevelt Hornblower of Peabody Terrace and Hobesound, Florida...
...Winston Churchill (175), Abraham Lincoln (151), Thomas Jefferson (72), George Washington (66). Also-rans: Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Mahatma Gandhi, William Shakespeare, Albert Schweitzer. Visitors to Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London voted Churchill the Hero of All Time, ahead of Jesus, John F. Kennedy, Admiral Nelson and Joan of Arc. As Most Hated and Feared, the waxwork freaks voted Hitler and Mao Tse-tung one and two. President Nixon ranked fourth. Three tied for fifth place-Prime Minister Edward Heath, Dracula and Vice President Spiro Agnew...
Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion. Madame Bovary in Hollywood-written in masterly, spare, sinuous prose...
...JOAN JACOBUS...
...Cardinal Danielou, who said that the idea "does not shock me." How about the miracles normally required for canonization? Merely an innovation of modern times, said Danielou. More important was the ability "to practice virtues with a certain degree of heroism." In any case there was no particular hurry. Joan of Arc did not make it for 489 years...