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...touch them, am not ill? . . .[You] who are afraid and suspicious of everything will die." But Angelo loses faith in the doctor's example when he finds that there is no way to save people from dying. So he teams up for a while with a stouthearted nun and works mightily, washing and laying out corpses. But this, too, fails him when he realizes that the fearless nun does not really care whether people stay alive; she only wants them to look "clean and decent" at the Resurrection. "He's tricked us!" she shouts furiously when...
...pleaded guilty to kidnaping six-year-old Bobby Greenlease (TIME, Nov. 16). The only issue before the jury in Kansas City, Mo. was that of prison or death. Burly U.S. Attorney Edward L. Scheufler demanded death, and started calling witnesses to spell out the crime in squalid detail. A nun's face was pale as she sat with her crucifix in her lap and told of being tricked into releasing Bobby Greenlease from school to go to his "sick mother." Who had fooled her? Sister Morand hesitated, looked around, half rose and pointed at Mrs. Heady. Bonnie Heady faced...
Last month Mrs. Heady went to Kansas City's French Institute of Notre Dame de Sion, where little Bobby Green-lease was in the first grade, and tricked a nun into letting the boy go with her (TIME, Oct. 12). She took Bobby to Hall, who was waiting several blocks away in her station wagon. Then, according to her original story to police, she went shopping, returned to drive with Hall to St. Joe and noticed a large bundle under a blanket on the vehicle floor; Hall told her it was "dog food...
...hour later, another nun called the Greenlease home. Mrs. Greenlease, supposedly ill, answered. How was she feeling? Just fine, she told Mère Marthanna. "And then," recalled the nun, "my heart sank way down and I realized what had happened...
Eight months after abandoning her $3,500-a-week Hollywood job for a Sisters of Charity convent in Kansas, Cinemactress June Haver, 27, flew home to Los Angeles, her attempt to become a nun at an end. Photographers snapped her getting kissed by her stepfather and mother, Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Ottestad. Ill health was June's reason for returning to secular life: "I was a novice, and it means just that. It's a time of trial, and if you can't do it, well...