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...deleted: Nancy D'Alesandro. On the witness stand in Piracci's trial, Nancy admitted getting six checks totaling $11,130.78 from Piracci. But she swore that $1,500 of it was a gift to their newly wed children, Tommy III and Margie. The rest. she claimed, Piracci lent her to pay off debts incurred in her feed business and a venture with a skin softener called Velvex...
...ranch manager carried her to his car and raced five miles into town. Her physician, Dr. Jerry Fairbanks, 31, found her near death upon arrival. A nurse and another doctor lent their thumbs in turn to close the wound while Dr. Fairbanks gave Mrs. Rogers both plasma and whole blood, telephoned Yakima for more blood, and arranged for an ambulance trip to Spokane. Relays of state troopers rushed the blood 110 miles from Yakima; then Dr. Fairbanks bundled his patient up for the equally long drive to Spokane. He kept his thumb on the artery...
...between Ivy and Jughead, between the 38th parallel and Dienbienphu, has enforced a Lenten mood upon the nations with the sack cloth of political conflict and showers of radioactive ash. The chocolate bunnies, the dizzy eggs and the pretty bonnets of Easter are the more incongruous for it. For Lent looks to the real Easter; and to lift high that great light in man's darkness is the holy challenge of the churches. How are the churches of America meeting the challenge? The change - in a generation - is enough to make wiseacres blink. Twenty-five years ago, traditional Christianity...
...Actually 46 days by the calendar, but Sundays are not included in Lent. * Since 1950, by undergraduate decision, all upperclassmen are invited to join a club. * Pit is still a lay member "in fairly good standing" of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill...
...could be lawfully seated if elected, but chances for a favorable ruling on that seemed slim, too. From another quarter, the Central gained an ally. An Alleghany Corp. stockholder, Mrs. Sadie Zenn, owner of 500 shares, filed a suit against the corporation, objecting to the fact that Alleghany had lent $7,500,000 to Murchison and Richardson to help them buy their stock. She wanted the deal canceled...