Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into carefully chaperoned girlhood, then into shy, sequestered, plain-looking young women. This year on their 20th birthday, Emilie, Annette and Cecile were taking domestic science studies; Yvonne was studying fine arts in Montreal; Marie was about to leave a Quebec convent where she had decided against becoming a nun...
...disease rarely cured. Periodically, she was stricken with seizures. Last month a policeman found her wandering, apparently lost, on a street in Montreal. One day last week, when she was visiting at a convent near Ste. Agathe, Que. to decide whether she also might choose the life of a nun, Emilie was stricken again. She suffered three successive fits. No doctor was called, but next morning she stayed in her room to rest. A short while later, a nurse found Emilie Dionne dead of asphyxiation, due to acute congestion of the lungs.* The law of averages, late but inexorable...
Married. June Haver. 28. blonde cinemactress (The Girl Next Door), who entered a Roman Catholic convent as a postulant nun in February 1953, quit six months later; and Fred MacMurray, 45, cinemactor (The Caine Mutiny); both for the second time; in Ojai, Calif...
Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Comedienne Hermione Gingold; Hemingway's The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio...
Included: a mass baptism at Harlem's Church of the Resurrection, the day-today life of a Pittsburgh steelworker. The leading article is a suggested plan for a first reading of the Bible, written by a French Dominican nun, Sister Jeanne d'Arc, for Catholics who want to go through their Bibles cover to cover without getting bogged down in the "arid passages" of the Old Testament...