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Within minutes of the official announcement of Popieluszko's death, thousands of Poles massed in front of the twin-towered church of St. Stanislaw Kostka, the parish in northern Warsaw where the priest had worked during the last four years of his life. Inside the church, Father Feliks Polejewski announced at the end of Mass that "Father Jerzy is among the blessed today." For a moment, all emotion seemed to drain from the congregation, which had kept up a determined vigil for eleven days. Then came the sobs, as the crowd haltingly began to sing a patriotic anthem. Reciting...
...Every death is painful, but this one is especially brutal. It will not be forgotten." As the telegram from Lech Walesa, founder of the outlawed independent trade union Solidarity, was read, a hush fell over the mourners who had gathered in Warsaw's St. Stanislaw Kostka Roman Catholic Church last week. Then they burst into applause. The funeral was for Grzegorz Przemyk, 19, a high school senior who died of injuries received from a severe beating by Polish militiamen. His death quickly became a rallying cause for Poles who hate the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
Meantime NBC's Press Chief Bill Kostka decided that the next logical move was to tell the world about NBC and the Panama Coast Artillery. So this week NBC will tie the facilities of its Blue network via telephone line to a tiny 50-watt transmitter in the post gymnasium at Fort Amador, C.Z., advertise the fact that PCAN and PCAC are now its prot...
...smiling, quiet-spoken, curly-haired youth of 21, Stan Kostka has been dubbed "King Kong" by his hometown sportswriters because he is wedge-shaped and his arms seem to hang, apelike, below his knees. Only 5 ft. 10½ in., his official weight is 210 lb. Rival coaches suspect that this is possibly some 20 lb. short of reality...
...Polish father and a Bohemian mother, Stan Kostka followed Coach Clarence W. ("Doc") Spears when he left Minnesota to go to Oregon, played there two years, wanted to follow Spears to Wisconsin but a Big Ten ruling would have prevented his playing football there. As it is, when he steps out on the field against Wisconsin this Saturday it will be the end of his meteoric, first and only season with the Gophers. By another Big Ten ruling he will not be eligible to play in 1935. He will probably join some professional team, as did his hero, Minnesota...