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...students did not always look typical, but wherever they went, they created a minor whirl. Some of them tangled with the ultra-polite. London Bobbies who had to remind them that British traffic really did run on the left-hand side of the road. Some penetrated the iron curtain and became small international incidents before AMG authorities got them released from jail...
...opposing views of Dean Walter Russell Bowie and Father Murray remind one of a story current...
Last week Father Pelletier had powerful backing. In Quebec City, after investigating the children and finding "no miraculous event was verified," Archbishop Maurice Roy issued a statement: "We remind all the faithful they must abstain from such superstitious practices. We ask particularly that priests . . . do nothing that would seem to encourage this so-called devotion." Through the newspapers Papa Bélanger quickly announced that his house henceforth was closed to visitors...
...kicking off the 1949 campaign, Chicago got its chance to remind its citizens that it had pioneered in bringing the fight against VD into the open. Its publicity-loving Health Commissioner, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, once dragged in Al Capone's girl friend for a blood test. He still tacks up syphilis quarantine signs himself, with the butt of a pistol, on any tavern which refuses to send its bar girls in for tests. Pointing to Chicago's syphilis rate, which has dropped 45% against a national drop of 37%, Bundesen boldly boasts: "Chicago is the safest place...
...refused to write under wartime censorship. Then, last November, a severe stroke (cerebral hemorrhage) left the 68-year-old gadfly partially paralyzed and stilled his buzzing. But not entirely. Even as he was brought to a halt, his latest book was in the printer's hands. It will remind old readers and explain to many a new one why the cigar-chomping, beer-guzzling Sage of Baltimore has been the most effective irritant in U.S. writing history...