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...varied as the turn-of-the-century New York City of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, and the range of real-life characters is even greater: Hoodlums Al Capone and Frank Nitti and Machine Gun Jack McGurn, Mayors Big Bill Thompson and Anton Cermak, Roman Catholic Cardinal George Mundelein, Utilities Tycoon Samuel Insull and Assassin Giuseppe Zangara, who struck down Cermak in Miami while trying to kill Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Sean's fate seems to be Greeley's fantasy. He is ordained at St. Mary of-the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, the author's alma mater, in 1956, just two years after Greeley was. Greeley remembers being "very cautious, very conservative. I kept all the rules." So does Sean. Assigned to a black parish (unlike Greeley), he works himself to near collapse. A new archbishop sends the exhausted curate off to Rome to study the history of church marital theology, and Sean finds himself on the famous papal birth control commission, where he stubbornly decides to abstain...
...horrible. Everyone was very young, very bright and very articulate." But she stuck it out, and is now contemplating a career in teaching or day care. Florence Pfeiffer, 60, a prospective religious counselor, has just finished her first year of full-time study at Chicago's Mundelein College. "I don't say I found it easy," says Pfeiffer; along with 350 other adults, she has been studying in the same classes as 18-year-olds. "But the younger students talked to me like they talk to each other," she adds happily...
Donald LaMagdeleine Mundelein...
Richard J. Prendergast Mundelein...