Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excitable Rev. Thurston N. Davis, S.J. produce a U.S. family where the wife invites her husband to "make yourself comfortable, dear, in your slipper-gripper Mistletoes," or tells the children, "jump into your perma-sized skijamas, kids, while I make you some Dagwitches with diced cream and superfection strawberries?" Can he find a poor speller among those same children, who, doing his homework, writes "kar-pokits" or "kon-veen-yunt?" If so, the cross-pollenating Madison Avenue ad men would turn handsprings...
Abundantly Satisfied. The Rev. Reuben Torrey now lives in Taejon near a model farm operated by the Methodists, Presbyterians, United Church of Canada, and Salvation Army, which devotes part of its area to showing amputees how they can lead active, useful lives. In South Korea there are now four prosthetic stations; Torrey and his fellow missionaries have fitted more than 800 artificial limbs and treated nearly 1,000 amputees. There is little likelihood that the work will diminish: land mines, unexploded shells, unguarded railway crossings, and the dearth of safety devices on machinery will bring thousands more to the clinic...
...electric chair." As news of the big break spread, the public and the press swarmed to Charlestown. Press helicopters whirled overhead, and photographers swung perilously above the prison wall on a crane. State troopers converged on Charlestown, and a Walker Bulldog tank lumbered up to the prison gates. The Rev. Edward Hartigan, the prison's Roman Catholic chaplain, was permitted to enter Cherry Hill to hear confessions and give Communion to some of the hostages. The prison physician was allowed to minister to a sick guard. Pretty Toby Green, 16, made a telephone call to her besieged father. Excerpts...
Some of Dubois' most devoted supporters still pleaded for him with Cardinal Saliège. Last week came word from the cardinal's office. "It's a sad case," said the Rev. Marius Garail, canon of the Toulouse archbishopric. "The boy is to be pitied, for I am afraid he will suffer very much. The ecclesiastical authorities were very lenient and waited as long as they could, but there was no other possible action for them to take...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, director of University Health Services, will give a new course in the Divinity School during the spring term, Rev. George H. Williams, acting dean of the school, announced yesterday...