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Civilian Morale. Two Army chaplains and a Catholic nun made statements that sounded careful and sensible...
Gaunt Amos Richards Eno Pinchot, participator with Brother Gifford in founding the Bull Moose party, father of the late Actress Rosamond (once The Nun in The Miracle), who killed herself in 1938, longtime anti-New Dealer, onetime America Firster, whose 68th birthday fell the day before Pearl Harbor, slashed several veins in one of his arms and was taken to a Westport, Conn, hospital. His condition: critical...
From his bamboo and Saksak palm episcopal palace in Keita he and his 54 priests and nuns (including Father James Hennessy of Boston and Father John Conley of Philadelphia) range all through the innumberable islands, in launches and little outrigger canoes. They still encounter an occasional intimation of cannibalism. When one nun visited a remote mountain village in 1937, the chief took a bite out of her arm to sample her flesh but she received no other affront...
...Miss Kenny is not a nun. In England and Australia, experienced graduate nurses are called Sister...
...approaching zero. One of the stories in this collection-by Arthur Kober, dialectician laureate of The Bronx-is just a monologue by an offensively smug hash-house proprietor. Many are written in the fashionable (since Hemingway) stark-simple style which, slightly overdone, approximates baby talk. Thus John Fante (A Nun No More): "My mother cried and cried night and day. They couldn't stop her. . . . Finally Grandma Toscana called the priest. . . . Right away she felt better. Next day she was better than ever. Next day she was swell. Pretty soon she was able to get out of bed. Then...