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...gave her hostage to fortune in their one child. Wells, who grew up to write a novel while at Harvard, was killed in action as a U.S. officer in World War II, at the age of 27. In his childhood he was shuttled between expensive pillar and posh post (King George V "saluted" him as he rode in London's Rotten Row) until he came to look at his famous father with a cool eye. He would brace himself to lecture him on the evils of drink only to find the unpredictable Hal had become his sober, fascinating self...
Even in the winding-sheet prose of the Rev. Alban Butler, the saints' often wildly exciting lives and extravagant deaths provided the thriller reading for generations of 18th and 19th century Christians, who did not have the grotesqueries of horror comics and TV. A prodigiously diligent pillar of British Roman Catholicism, Hagiographer Butler labored on his lives for 30 years of spare time and published them anonymously in 1756. The present edition, drastically edited by the late Father Herbert Thurston, S.J. and British Author Donald Attwater, is virtually a new work, contains the lives of 2,565 saints...
...work to convert the Moors, was a failure in almost everything he undertook, but his vision was so bright and his energy so great that he never seemed to notice the defeats and frustrations that would have submerged an ordinary man. Fifth century Daniel the Stylite lived atop a pillar near the Bos-phorus for 33 years, and, like his famed preceptor Simeon, controlled with his prestige the emperors and patriarchs in the world below...
...Toronto '14), Phillips won a colonelcy in the British army in World War I, returned home and went into glass manufacture, did so well that in World War II he headed up the 55-acre, Government-operated Research Enterprises (radar and optical firing equipment). Tall, balding, an unbending pillar of Toronto society, Phillips is already president of two corporations (Duplate Canada, Fiberglas Canada), board chairman of another two (Canadian Pittsburgh Industries, Argus Corp.), chairman of the board of governors, University of Toronto. C| Carlos E. Allen Jr., 51, was appointed $50,000 a year president of the Chicago Federal...
...only $190 million worth of privately owned stock) will still be allowed to play ring-around-a-rosy with the tax collectors. As private capital disappears from the stock market, industrialists fear that they will have to borrow from government-controlled banks instead. The stock market, a major pillar of free enterprise, would thus become an ornamental façade for a socialist economy that is already 40% government-owned. Italian financial leaders have tried to convince the government that a dividend tax levied directly on corporations would be cheaper to collect and harder to dodge. But last week, after...