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...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...
...days of listening to these and other complaints, Dulles will go to Jerusalem to be received by frankly apprehensive Israelis. An official of Premier David Ben-Gurion's Mapai Party said last week: "During the Truman regime, we were our rich uncle's favorite Middle East nephew. Now there are eight favorites-all of them more favorite than Israel...
...success stemmed from a Republican tie-up with Democratic machines in both Jersey City and Hoboken. In 1949, Dickerson testified, he had done his best to help Democrat John V. Kenny beat the corrupt Hague machine in Jersey City. His best was good enough; Kenny displaced Hague's nephew as mayor of Jersey City and Hague as boss of Hudson County. In return, said Dickerson, Kenny's Democratic machine slammed on the brakes during the autumn gubernatorial campaign; Jersey City and surrounding Hudson County, which normally returns a Democratic majority of from 75,000 to 100,000, produced...
Married. Ann Ruml, Vassar-educated daughter of Tax Economist Beardsley ("pay as you go") Ruml; and Lieut. Colonel (of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) John R. Innes Doyle, nephew of the late Sir Arthur Conan (Sherlock Holmes) Doyle; in the British embassy, Paris...
...Messrs. Fixit of My 3 Angels are employed as roofers by a family in dire danger of having no roof over their heads: on the way from France is a snarling cousin, to oust papa from the business he has botched. Along with the cousin is his coldblooded nephew, who is jilting papa's daughter for an heiress...