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...will also apply himself to education (he has been president of Amarillo's Price Memorial College). An obstacle to him will be New Mexico's 13.3% illiteracy. Tall, plump and blond, Archbishop Gerken is a Rotarian, fond of quoting Aristotle and St. Francis (Santa Fe's patron) at weekly luncheons. He drives his own automobile, unlike his immediate predecessor in Santa Fe, Archbishop Albert T. Daeger, who was often seen humbly carrying his own suitcases on the streets, who rode in buses and who, last December, absentmindedly stepped from one into a concrete pit, fractured his skull...
...great patron of scouting. Count Teleki was in charge of the vast Scout Camp which had its own police, hospital, specially constructed water and lighting systems and a Jamboree newspaper published in five languages. Scottish Scouts stepped out in kilts, French came in green jumpers, blue shorts and berets. Swart Egyptian Scouts wore fezzes, Irak turned out in sun helmets, Siam sent scouts in black hats displaying a tiger's head. But all proper Scouts in the Jamboree used the distinctive salute* of Lord Baden-Powell's "Boy Scouts of the World." Improper and ill at ease were...
...patron of Boy Scouts, but in his own fashion, wealthy and eccentric President Juan Vicente Gomez took small interest last week in the Fourth World Scout Jamboree (see p. 18). Four years ago he offered $10,000 to the first Venezuelan Boy Scout who should return from a walk to every South American country. Last week the seamy featured old President received with relish the news that Scout Carlos Arturo Zembrana is still walking still the favorite to win the $10,000 prize. Aged 11, Scout Zembrana left Venezuela in 1929, tramped across the wilds of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru...
...sorry pile to Denver University as a landmark of Colorado's brawling past, past enough for Coloradoans to be proud of. But the University could not afford to repair the vast, draughty stage, prop up the collapsing roof. To the rescue came Denver's able, elderly Art Patron Ann Evans, socialite president of Evans Investment Co., daughter of Colorado's second territorial Governor, John Evans. She soon made Central City a Denver socialite fad. To rebuild the Opera House she sold its original 750 broad-bottomed hickory chairs for $100 apiece, formed the Central City Opera House...
July 25 is the feast of St. Christopher, patron of travelers, whose popularity steadily increases among U. S. Catholics. To dozens of churches motor cars, taxicabs and trucks proceeded last week for sprinkling and blessing. Into the churches passed drivers to invoke burly St. Christopher's help with prayer: "O God, who didst provide for the children of Israel to pass dry of foot through the midst of the waters, and didst open for the three Magi a road to Thee by means of a Star, grant unto us, we beseech Thee, a journey prosperous and free from harm...