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Eleven days later Miss McKenney became the second Mrs. Michael Lyman- "Conway" proving to be only a penname adopted by radical Mike out of deference to his wealthy family ("A scion, eh?" whistled Sister Eileen: "Remind me to look twice at the next New Masses editor we rope in").* The happy couple settled down in Greenwich Village, where life would have been sheer heaven if only the first Mrs. Lyman, who was "tall, willowy and beautiful" and possessed "seven million dollars, strictly in government bonds," hadn't given vent to the "strong streak of dog-in-the-manger...
...gathered for the funeral at the handsome, Byzantine-style church of Santa Rosa de Lima, which Doña María had built, and where her husband is entombed. Her body was to be placed beside his. Just before the ceremony, a messenger arrived from City Hall to remind church authorities that an old sanitary ordinance forbade burial except in cemeteries. The priests protested that they had long since gotten a special dispensation from the municipality to put Doña María in a crypt in the church, just as they had for her husband 8 years...
Since all this is a moral problem, said Murdock, he thought that his views should be dealt with by society's moral leaders, the clergy. "No doubt it seems absurd to think of the clergy as leading a movement to relax a standard of sexual morality ... I remind you, however, that it was the Protestant clergy who brought about the first great sexual reform of modern times by attacking and reversing the restrictive taboo of ecclesiastical celibacy. There is no inherent reason why they could not lead a second reform of equal magnitude and importance, especially with the cooperation...
Professor Gus never wavered in his devotion to his own Jewish faith-nor did he ever fail to remind his Catholic students, at the approach of holy days, of their own churchgoing duties. "In religion as in commerce," said Gus, "a good man must be faithful to the principles that guide his living." He spent hours writing lengthy comments on test questions, devoted Sunday after Sunday to tutoring students who were having a hard time. When someone asked Anna what Gus's hobby was, she answered, "Hobby? His classes are his hobby...
...East River. Many of the rewards of his long career-money, books and manuscripts-have gone to charities and public institutions. He was content with other kinds of rewards. Said Fritz Kreisler to his birthday well-wishers last week, while wife Harriet tugged at the tablecloth to remind him not to talk too long: "Accept the profound gratitude of one who will always remain your humble and faithful friend...