Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Borrowed by the A.A.U. from the Army, Private Bragg. 23, visited France last month as an athletic ambassador. Excitable French newsmen were dazzled, saw in him the epitome of Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle boy. "Bragg, the Tarzan of athletics, knocked the breath out of the Paris public." gasped the Paris France-Soir. "If gentle Jane had kneeled beside him. and Cheetah had jumped to his side," thrilled the Paris-Presse, "nobody would have been surprised...
...next month, Pius X will lie before a special altar in the basilica. Venice was only disappointed that Pope John himself had not been able to make the journey. "Without your help," he told the Vatican workers who carried the coffin of Pius X, "I hope to go alive...
...spoiled a jolly good evening. No one knew how to treat me afterwards." But such announcements are growing less unusual all the time. Across Britain, parish-church notice boards are quietly ablaze with initial letters of decorations awarded new curates and vicars in their old careers. At last month's meeting of the Anglican selection board for ministerial training, the only two candidates over 40 were army majors; at the R.A.F. Chaplain's School, a quarter of the 125 candidates for ordination are senior officers...
...beneficial to the church," said an Anglican official last week. "But, alas, they have only perhaps five,'ten, or at most 15 years of useful life to give." Instead of the usual three-or four-year course, the church educates them for parish service with an 18-month "pocket" course, minus the usual classical-language requirements...
...Retail sales in March rose to an alltime high for any month. Particular gains were chalked up in durable goods, with sales up 18% from a year ago. Estimates for March sales: more than $17.6 billion...