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Sandra Gail Dolley, 28, of Ludlow, Mass., is a practicing Roman Catholic who once taught catechism at her parish in Springfield. She was married in a Catholic ceremony in 1970-just as her husband began his Army service. By early 1972 the couple had separated. A priest advised Sandra to seek an annulment* but the local diocese decided there was not enough evidence to justify one. In January 1973 the couple got a civil divorce. Later that year, when Sandra began to think seriously about marrying again, she stopped receiving Communion because by remarrying she would automatically incur excommunication. Priests...
Died. William Ludlow Chenery, 90, editor, then publisher of the late Collier's weekly from 1925 to 1950; in Monterey, Calif. A learned, liberal Virginia-born newspaperman, Chenery led the ailing Collier's to a notable comeback by taking vigorous editorial positions (the magazine was an early champion of Repeal) and recruiting big-name writers-H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, Ring Lardner, Zane Grey-at top dollar; in 1939 he signed F.D.R. to a $75,000-a-year contract for regular contributions...
...while, PIN united an unlikely assortment of volunteers in the give-it-all dedication that a crisis often inspires. A prominent backer of the Seattle plan, Washington Secretary of State A. Ludlow Kramer, took over as temporary director of PIN. Offers of warehouse space, trucks and food donations poured in from private businesses and public agencies. At the Hearst Corp. offices in downtown San Francisco, a bank of 20 telephones jangled constantly as citizens called in to volunteer help in handing out food; a reporter counted 32 calls in less than a minute...
...Methodist ministry. The limitations of the clerical life soon disillusioned him, and he switched to graduate work in American history at Northwestern University, taking a master's and a Ph.D. The subject of his dissertation was the Colorado coal strikes of 1913-14, which culminated in the Ludlow massacre of miners and their families...
Large sections of Marihuana Reconsidered are directed to a general, non-scientific audience. A long chapter is devoted to early literary accounts of cannabis intoxication by French writers such as Charles Baudelaire, Pierre Gautier, Bayard Taylor and Fitz Hugh Ludlow. For balance, Alan Ginsberg is given equal billing...