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...World War II, Monsignor Salvatore Montes de Oca, onetime Bishop of Valencia, Venezuela, gave refuge to Italian Partisans in a monastery near Lucca, where he was staying. The Germans executed him and the Partisans he tried to save. Last week the body of the martyr was brought back to Venezuela. It lay in state in the Cathedral of Caracas, while representatives of the Church, Government and Army paid tribute, before burial in Valencia...
...Martyr's Grave. By week's end, the 600 sadhus who had gathered on the Jumna's banks had a martyr,* if not a program for India. Swami Krishnanandji, like many another holy picketer, had been taken to jail. The police took away his trishool (5-ft. wooden staff with three points, known as the "stick of righteousness"), without which no sadhu can take food. So Krishnanandji went on a hunger strike. The police released him, but too late. He trudged wearily back to the sadhu camp. The next day, while a score of fellow ascetics chanted...
...Harvard cast its mantle of Veritas about the doughty frame of the nation's newest martyr. And when Leo hits Harvard it may truly be said, "O, suspension where is thy sting? O. Chandler, where is thy victory...
Strike & Out. In 1936 Lynch was fired for Newspaper Guild activity, became a martyr in the Guild's first big strike. It ended after 15 weeks, when Hearst hired John Boettiger as publisher of the P.L, and Boettiger later rehired Lynch. But as the years went by, Slim grew tired of shooting pictures of "broads sitting on the edge of a table." He also got tired of going out on stories with bright young reporters, "all excited and running around like mad." He had forgotten more angles than they would ever learn...
...fish, his recreations walking and sailing, his routine "of an even, grey-paper character." "He [lives]," complained one of his friends, "in a state of disgraceful indifference to everything, except grass and fresh air. . . . Half the self-sacrifice . . . the moral resolution, which he exercises . . . would amply furnish forth a martyr or a missionary. His tranquillity is like a pirated copy of the peace...