Word: murrays
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Federal and state laws have traditionally exempted church property from taxation. But now that the value of church possessions has grown to some $80 billion, professional secularists such as Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair have raised far-reaching court suits challenging these exemptions, and financially hard-pressed local governments have begun to nibble away at the limits of the churches' immunity. As a result, U.S. churches are today in the midst of an agonizing reappraisal of their traditional privileges...
...characters," he says. And his writing continually reflects his affection for widely assorted types. There was the winsome old lady who wandered out daily for two quarts of beer, and deftly navigated icy winter streets by sliding from parked car to telephone pole to parked car. Then there was Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, the late ace recruiter of new talent for the Chicago syndicate. "He could reach into the backwoods and find talented machine-gun players the way George Halas sometimes spots star material in small colleges...
Vacationing at Murray Bay, Canada, in 1933, Jack met and married Marjorie Ringling, an adopted daughter of the circus Ringlings and an aspiring actress. Within three years, they were divorced. Says Javits: "I guess we were too young. She was a Catholic and I was a Jew, and that had something to do with...
Much like the laurel wreath of ancient Greece, the honorary degree is to some extent a measure of the nation's esteem for human achievement. This year the man most voluminously laureled by the U.S. academic community was Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray (TIME cover, Dec. 12, 1960), chief architect of the Vatican Council's historic declaration on religious liberty. He received six honorary doctorates, from Yale, Columbia, Fordham, Gonzaga, Fairfield and Detroit universities...
...John Courtney Murray, D.S.T., Jesuit theologian. Determined fighter for freedom in the observance, practice, and witness of religion, scorner of ambiguist and dogmatist alike, priest, professor, eminent theologian, author and editor...