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Last week Manhattan newspapers reported such a marriage. The bride was Anne Mather, an heiress to a Cleveland iron-ore fortune and a descendant of New England's old Puritan Cotton Mather. The groom was Frank Curie Montero, a director of the Urban League Fund, whom she had met in social-welfare work...
Howard E. Sherman, the only American undergraduate who took part in the debate, asked, "Since money for money's sake is an old-established Puritan principle of English origin, is not the honorable member from Balliol [Joad] regretting an influence which England gave America and which England is now getting back...
...Rome, Philosopher George (The Last Puritan) Santayana, 86, complained that because of Holy Year, the staff at the Catholic retreat where he lives is kept too busy serving the pilgrims. "It may be that sometimes I may be too exacting," he admitted, "but often I am very sure the food is too cold...
...Puritan Bill Erman won the javelin. His 143-foot toss was nearly 13 feet ahead of Deacon Frank Manheim's effort, with Gene Kearney of Adams third and Bellboy Oscar DePriest fourth. Roger Davis of Adams was a close second in the broad jump, followed by Ronnie Breslow of Lowell and Dann Troxell of Leverett. Funster John Simpson and Owen Edmonds of Kirkland tied for fifth...
...Mencken's life-long devotion to hurling billingsgate at the 'Puritan boobs' won him many a loyal follower, particularly among the intellectually self-sciousness of America . . . realizing the grossness of its manners and its mind, and been dismally primitive. To Edmund Wilson, Mencken was, "the civilized consciousness of America . . . realzing the grossness of its manners and its mind, crying out in horror and chagrin . . ." His battles with the censors, one of which caused him to invade Boston and which also caused Felix Caragianes, the Square newsdealer, to be arrested for selling Mencken's "Mercury," are no less admirable today than...