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These, thought the Rev. Anthony L. Hofstee, are surely the most unfortunate people on earth. He could not forget them. He wrote a prayer: "Dear Jesus... let me see in the need of the leper, Thy need; in his cry for help, Thy cry. Let me see in every leper, Thyself, O Lord, that I may always serve Thee through him." Five years later, his prayer was answered. Father Hofstee, after going home to the U.S. for his discharge, went back to Tala, to stay, he hopes, until he dies...
Tala is now the second biggest of the six leper colonies in the Philippines. There, 16 hours a day, six days a week, 48-year-old Dominican Father Hofstee lives and works among Tala's 938 men, 529 women and 225 children. He knows them all. Everywhere he goes-in markets, infirmaries, schools and streets-he stops to chat. For children he has jokes and candy. He cheers the men ("You're a bright boy; you should try and write stories to keep yourself busy") and joshes the women. "Ah, my pretty doll...
Pennsylvania found itself an athletic leper, and a pretty lonesome one. The college continued a token struggle for a few more weeks, but the outcome was obvious. The Quakers decided last Thursday to capitulate to the N.C.A.A. in preference to joining the National Professional Football League...
Next to a colony of Tibetan beggars, whom he feeds and looks after, lives long-bearded Protestant Missionary Walter Morse. His only assistant is a young Tibetan leper, who lives with him for treatment and serves coffee to visitors. Morse tries to reassure his guests: "I think I've got him to the arrested stage where he can't spread the disease." Last year anthropologist Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark breezed into Kalimpong with his wife to study a unique form of Tibetan polyandry called za-sum-pa, the sharing of wives between fathers and sons...
...things turned out, it was not leprosy at all, even though the sores looked real and the girl had worn a leper's turban. "Disgusting poultices" applied by the dead girl's father soon "cured" the lieutenant; but Author Flaiano applies no explanatory poultices whatever to readers tricked for 160 pages into shivering with the lieutenant over a phony case of leprosy...