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...turn of the century, a restless, energetic young Episcopal monk of the Order of the Holy Cross (TIME, Aug. 20) had an ambition which he knew would cost money: to provide a decent, religious, private-school education for poor boys of good families. He got his Father Superior's permission, then mailed out appeals which would have brought him $250,000 had everybody contributed. He got $300. "Well," sighed Father Frederick Herbert Sill, "if the Lord wants me to start a school...
...special permission, stayed on as headmaster. Father Chalmers soon discovered the impossibility of fitting his Order's cloistered rules to his job as a busy headmaster. But Kent's trustees, clinging to the school's tradition, were unwilling to accept someone who was not a monk...
...British Field Marshal Montgomery. His army was a motley crew consisting of Hamet, some 90 of his Arab followers, seven U.S. marines under Lieut. Presley O'Bannon, 40-odd cutthroat Greeks and Italians recruited in Alexandria, an Italian "chief of engineers" (who had been by turns a Capuchin monk, an Indian dervish and a soldier of fortune) and a caravan of 190 camels at $11 a camel...
...north the primitive, uncivilized Kachins, Karens, Chins and Nagas had enthusiastically killed Japanese in droves. The less warlike tribes of Lower Burma first submitted to Japanese rule. Later they formed active guerrilla bands, mostly under Communist leadership. In Arakan a typical resistance group, led by a left-wing Buddhist monk named U Pinnyathaiha, organized a food blockade to starve the Japs, partisan groups to kill them. The mainspring of the Burmese maquis was the Communist-controlled, strongly separatist Anti-Fascist League, which has already named a national government to take over the country when it becomes independent...
...Aces (75 German planes) and World War II Vichy collaborationist, tried out a new role. R.A.F. Sergeant George Cole, back from a parachute landing in Belgium, told the story. Knocked unconscious by his jump, Cole awoke in a monastery where he was silently waited on for three days by monks sworn to perpetual silence. Finally he was driven back to his base by a non-silent, keenly airminded monk who began questioning him closely about the air war. Flyer Cole said that his robed driver was ex-Flyer Fonck...