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...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick, still dredging up obscure heroes and scoundrels of history for his Saturday-night radio talks, had taken a moment out before his discussion of "An English Benedict Arnold-George Monk" for a special announcement: "Before I begin this week's broadcast I wish to convey to my listeners the desire to obtain two statues of Virginia Revolutionary statesmen and heroes that would fit into alcoves six feet high." Behind his cryptic appeal was a plan to embellish the wall of the "Nathan Hale Court," which fronts the Tribune Building. Within...
...Monk with a Skull is a favorite at St. Louis' City Art Museum (TIME, Oct. 29, 1951). But much of his work is hidden away in private Spanish collections, and glimpses have been...
...national hero after the 1918 armistice, Fonck turned to civilian flying, narrowly escaped death when his S-35 crashed on the take-off of a 1926 transatlantic attempt. Back in uniform in 1939, Colonel Fonck led a fighter group until France fell, in 1942 disguised himself as a Trappist monk and helped organize an escape route through Belgium for downed Allied airmen. Arrested in 1944 on charges of Vichy collaboration, but never officially indicted, Old War Bird Fonck spent his remaining years running a chemical-products firm in Paris...
...idea. Bishop Vincent S. Waters of Raleigh, a Virginian by birth, ordered it in a letter read from the pulpits of both churches on April 19. The tiny farming community has been in an uproar ever since. "Why did the bishop do it?" asked 74-year-old John Monk, nephew and namesake of the founder of Newton Grove's first Catholic church, and plenty of his neighbors agreed with him. They petitioned Bishop Waters, and many of them said they would take their worship elsewhere...
Harvard's attack is the biggest local hope. Phil (46-goal) Waring and feeders Ed Curtis and Monk Aiello could move the Crimson right into the lead...