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When Sheen was small, the family moved to Peoria, 30 miles away. His father alternated between storekeeping and farming. Young Sheen was a frail boy who never ate much and sometimes annoyed his three brothers by curling up with a book rather than help with the chores. He was christened Peter John, and called P.J. as a boy, but he preferred Fulton (his mother's maiden name), and used it until it stuck. His father was a Roman Catholic who had drifted out of the Church but came back to it, and P.J. grew up in a good Catholic...
...went to Catholic schools, served as an altar boy at St. Mary's Cathedral, Peoria, and got an early introduction to the practical side of religion when he sold advertising for the church paper, the Cathedral Messenger. He was always in a hurry, even then...
...College, where he remembers another promising young priest, Ronald Knox (TIME, Feb. 11). By that time Father Sheen was 30, and already had something of a name. Oxford wanted him to teach philosophy; so did Columbia. Then came the damping orders: home to St. Patrick's, Peoria...
...other half of the 14-man Olympic squad, taken from the top A.A.U. team in the U.S., was decided when the Peoria (Lll.) Caterpillar Diesels beat the Denver (Colo.) Phillips Oilers...
THOMAS S. KLISE Peoria...