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...greatness. At the beginning, in a Scottish village, he has no desire to take holy orders. He is brought to it by his sweetheart's death and by a benign old Monsignor (Edmund Gwenn) who talks, not too urgently, about the will of God. It is this same mentor who sends the young priest, when he has come to regard himself as a hopeless failure, a thousand miles deep into 19th-Century China, to install himself in a leaky stable near a ruined church, and to endure as he may the insults of the anti-Christians who defile...
...Harvard's war-time athletic program is energetic Floyd Stahl, head baseball and basketball coach, as well as assistant football mentor to Henry Lamar...
Contrary to popular belief, Stahl is not merely a baseball man filling in as hoop mentor. His basketball coaching record is nearly as full and impressive as his baseball work, and his experience just as extensive...
...informal wartime basketball, he considers the play a little less polished than in peacetime, with less veteran material to draw on. The short, efficient hoop mentor points out that on last winter's starting lineup were two men who had never played basketball in secondary school...
After he announced his choice, newsmen jammed his small Senate office. Joe Ball made one point clear: he spoke for himself alone, and not for his political mentor, Minnesota's ex-Governor Harold Stassen, now a lieutenant commander in the South Pacific. Then he said, about the White House visit...