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...embark for Africa with a stock of liquor for the British army in the Sudan. At Khartoum he saw Chinese Gordon killed by the Moslem Mahdi, became the Mahdi's finance minister and political adviser for ten precarious years that included his forced marriage to a captive nun in an obscenely burlesqued ceremony. Meanwhile he had become Kitchener's No. 1 spy, and when Kitchener routed the Mahdi and cleaned up the Sudan, Ulysses -was the most powerful trader in Africa...
...wonder," cited as a reason why the Catholic Church should make a saint of Mother Cabrini. last week helped advance her one step on the long road to canonization. In the Vatican, Pope Pius XI and his Congregation of Rites approved the "heroic virtues" of the energetic, well-born nun, directed that she be called "Venerable...
...shoe-salesman, a zealous defender of banal ideas and a tyrannical foster-father; Brother Bill is a sneak thief who has acquired a great store of misinformation about sex; Mother Lizz is a hard-hitting slattern whose great regret is that she did not become a nun; Aunt Margaret is a well-built hotel cashier whose love affair with a lumberman lifts her into the world of affairs and drives her to drink. The only warm-hearted character in the book is Jim O'Neill, who suffers as he watches his children being taken by relatives, suf fers more...
...months ago a pretty, 25-year-old Roman Catholic nun named Manuela Mary Adamic, serving in a hospital at Dedinje, Yugoslavia, broke her religious vows, ran away, married a patient she had nursed through a long illness. In Manhattan her nervous, energetic, expatriate brother, Louis Adamic, author of two books on the sturdy Adamic family, observed, "She asks me, naively, to forgive her for the step. . . . She is one of the finest and most beautiful girls that ever lived. ... A man who could make her escape after five years must have strength.'' Thus U. S. newsreaders learned...
...implication, as currency smugglers and sexual perverts. In a recent issue of Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer appeared the ultimate in double-barreled cartoons: on the left under the caption Sworn to Satan a leering Jew seducing a German maiden; on the right a priest and nun tagged Belonging to the Church; these two captions trailing into the screamer AND BOTH LOST TO THE COMMUNITY OF THE PEOPLE: UNFRUITFUL...