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...know of no testing ground which can compare with an internment camp for bring ing out the true worth of any individual. I did not know "Uncle Don" before I was interned with him, but the two years I knew and worked with him in Santo Tomàs and Los Banos Internment Camps, he was a never-failing source of encouragement to me. He was a true friend to me when friends I had known for years wavered-so trusted by myself and my husband (then friend) that he was allowed to listen to our concealed receiver whenever...
...still the most vivid recollection of my eight-year-old son, whom he entertained daily with his wonderful fairy stories of "Winkie Doodle"-interspersed with bits of his own true life story in China. On my son's sixth birthday, Uncle Don invited him to his "shanty," in Santo Tomàs, for a birthday dinner (no mean invitation when every mouthful was weighed carefully), and promised that some day when we got out he'd give him a bicycle; Last year, at Christmas, a money order arrived for that purpose. He was a true friend, no less...
...election followed a centuries-old formula. For four days electors were confined to the Society's headquarters at the Borgo Santo Spirito. When election day came, they attended a 5:30 Mass of the Holy Ghost, then, wearing their plain black robes, filed into the Hall of Elections. After an exhortation on the qualities most needed in the new General, electors knelt for the prescribed hour of prayer and meditation. The hour past, each elector read the oath: "I swear that my vote has been guided only by the interest of the Church and the Society of Jesus," dropped...
Little Lost Child. New York Times Reporter Foster Hailey saw Patsy at orphanages on Espiritu Santo and Efate and wrote two stories about her. These were read by Mrs. Li's sister, Katherine, who was doing medical research in Manhattan. Although the name was spelled "Patsy Lee" in the stories, she was so struck by the coincidence that she sent the clippings to her sister in Singapore...
...half of his 65 years, John James Audubon did not appear to be destined for anything in particular. The bastard son of a French sea captain and a Santo Domingo Creole, he grew up in France when Jean Jacques Rousseau's back-to-nature notions were the rage. Sent to America to seek his fortune (as overseer of his father's estate near Philadelphia), young Audubon looked and acted like an absentminded candidate for the horsy...