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...bedraggled and ill with pleurisy, was routed from her prison bed by her Communist guards one day last week and taken to see a grave on the outskirts of Canton, China. Over the grassless mound rose a small stone slab engraved with three Chinese characters. At a glance, the nun, veteran of 13 years in the China missions, transliterated: FORD. At the graveside she was forced to sign a statement that the man ostensibly buried there had died "of old age and illness." Packed off the next day to Hong Kong and freedom, Sister Joan Marie told...
...retarded children need not be put in institutions, but can live at home and go to school, began for Spokane in two basement rooms at St. Joseph's Orphanage. Washington had nothing then but two state asylums for such children, and no plans for an outside program. A nun (Sister M. Virginia Claire) decided to see what the parents themselves could do. She got four couples interested, and helped them draft a plan...
...never seemed seriously interested in girls, but occasionally he did go out with them. Old schoolmates particularly remember a French girl whom Sheen dated; she later became a nun...
...Beloved Country is so earnest and virtuous that criticism of it seems almost improper--like throwing stones at a nun, say. But I am bound to say that it is a disappointing movie which hardly ever catches the strength and beauty of Alan Paton's novel of the same name from which it was taken...
Attraction and love between an adolescent boy and a nun; a remarkable novel by a French teen-ager (TIME, Feb. 4). Nell Gwyn: Royal Mistress, by John H. Wilson. A biography of Charles II's famous doxy (TIME...