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...Urban College of the Propagation of the Faith. The college rejected him because of his youth, but before he was sent home little Lazarus was permitted to join a group audience with St. Pope Pius X (canonized in 1954), who noticed him and predicted: "This small Armenian boy will render great services to the church." Lazarus was allowed to enter the college after...
...wool from South America's vicuñas, getting it tailored into coats for friends such as Adams and Payne. By his standards his was the open, honest hand of friendship, and what he got in return was only the kind of help one friend would render another. Says one of his closest Boston friends: "He's a name dropper and a Scotch drinker, and he has a weakness of talking too much, dropping too many names and things." By last weekend his lavish hand and careless tongue had dropped considerably the name of the best...
David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, claimed that applications to the various Houses at Harvard are distributed evenly enough to render Yale's method unnecessary...
Emmanuel Slabaugh and Eli Hershberger (John's distant cousin) backed up his refusal. Their bonneted wives, standing quietly by, said nothing. Said Judge Young: "I can't indulge in a religious argument. Religious convictions do not stand against an order of this court. We must render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's. And today we're dealing with Caesar." He ordered that the parents be locked up until the three teen-agers are turned over to the children's home...
...regretful voice, he read a five-page statement. "I feel sorry for you," said Harris. "You are to be pitied, in my opinion, because I think you have been used as a tool in this unfortunate mess. It seems to me that the best possible service that you could render now as a member of the Federal Communications Commission would be to submit your resignation." It was a verdict that was a partial vindication for Mack's chief accuser, Dr. Bernard Schwartz, the contentious New York University law professor who got fired as the subcommittee's chief counsel...