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...primatial Catholic see, John Carmel Heenan had a right to expect a cardinalate; so did Archbishop William Conway of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland. It was also predictable that Paul would offer a sign of the church's esteem to Archbishop Enrico Dante, 80, the lean, gesticulating papal master of ceremonies, who has nudged and poked Bishops of Rome through the intricacies of pontifical rituals for 50 years...
...students, the word is, should not evince any interest in the subject within earshot of medical school walls because schools shy away from their kind on the general principle that "it takes one to know one." What to tell them, this tale continues, is that you are unsure but lean towards "research...
Intellectuals lean towards homosexualism. Rumors indicate that many a Harvard Professor leads his attractive boys to the male bosom. To his Beacon Hill apartment Radcliffe girls are never invited. Just boys, Young innocents of the dear old CRIMSON...
Forster agreed with the students that the graduate schools might object "because we would be giving them less help and making them look for other qualifications." But he feels that Dartmouth's stature would influence the graduate schools "not to lean on grades...
Wise in the Ways. Within 48 hours after the robbery. New York police had got a tip and picked up three suspects: Roger Clark, 29. Allan Kuhn, 26, and Jack ("Murph the Surf") Murphy, 27, all habitués of Miami Beach spas. They were lean, tanned fun lovers who apparently made their living as beach boys and instructors in swimming, surfing and undersea diving. All were members of a loose fraternity of similarly inclined young men who earn untidy amounts of money entertaining lonely middle-aged ladies...