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Mrs. Turley was no Sarah,* but there are few cases on record of childbearing at 59. In the 18th Century, Lucas Debes wrote of a Scandinavian woman who supposedly became pregnant at 103. Pliny reported that Cornelia of the family of Serpius bore a son at 60. Probably the oldest...
Then came a new headmaster-a big, twinkly-eyed Episcopal clergyman named Albert Hawley Lucas. He had been a Marine private during World War I, later assistant headmaster at Pennsylvania's Episcopal Academy. He dressed in tweeds, liked to smoke pipes, played goal on the faculty soccer team. The...
During all those years, Headmaster Lucas didn't change much. Though he became a canon of his cathedral and assistant to the Bishop of Washington, he never learned to be formal. If he heard that some teacher's wife had suddenly been taken ill, he would still rush...
When Albert Lucas first took over St. Albans, he told his Bishop that, God willing, he would like to stay for 20 years-but no longer. Last week the 20 years were about up, and the Chief announced that in June he would retire; he wanted to spend the next...
Lucas boiled up. Didn't Morse know that a Republican committee, before the November election, had made all the lavish arrangement for the inauguration?