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Among the 2,500 mostly learned and lordly Roman Catholic bishops around the world, English Archbishop Thomas d'Esterre Roberts, 71, is an independent spirit who feels free to put churchly propositions up to the measure of his own reason. He has no use for pomp, and to discourage...
Last week he was at Seattle University, wreathed in a cloud of Salem smoke, sitting at a desk littered with matchbooks, letters and Agatha Christie novels. He would rather have been in Southern California. But the arch-conservative Archbishop of Los Angeles, James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, banned the liberal Roberts...
"Please Confirm." A Jesuit priest born of English parents in Le Havre, Roberts once headed an archdiocese -but gave it up. In 1937, while teaching in Liverpool, he was told by a reporter of-his appointment as Archbishop of Bombay. Tongue in cheek, he wired Rome to "please confirm" the...
Mr. Roberts, a former editor of the CRIMSON, spent four years dodging cars in Boston before becoming traffic editor for the Washington bureau of the New York TIMES.
Died. Edward Glenn ("Fireball") Roberts, 33, champion U.S. stock car racer, a fierce and flashing veteran of the high-banked ovals who, in 15 years of driving everything from midgets to 410-h.p. Fords, won close to $400,000 and all the big races except the World 600 in Charlotte...