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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skunk. She loved him at sight. He told her, cautiously, that she was too good for him. He divulged his past: he had gone to Spain after a boyhood near Bridgeport, Conn., had married, fathered four children, deserted his wife, fought for Franco, and ended up in Gibraltar as a police stool pigeon. He had spent five months in jail (for theft) after landing back in the U.S. in 1946. He finally admitted that he preyed on women...
...seminarians. Tightlipped, he rode his gravediggers through the cemetery's picket line, while a silent union man respectfully touched his hat to his cardinal arch bishop. It was a serious decision that the cardinal had made. Many a Catholic union man was troubled and angry at the sight of the young strikebreakers who would soon be priests-many of them pastors of workingman flocks...
Today, Monro still has one of the most difficult positions in the University. His long, lean frame and intent features, crowned by straight black hair that sticks up in spikes, are a familiar sight around the Yard at all hours of the day and night. His shirt-sleeved figure has been seen at his office typewriter more than once by Weld Hall residents returning from late dates. His charges, which include veterans in all parts of the University, now number something over 7,000--only 2,000 below the peak of 1946-47. His office is the channel for about...
...California's Santa Anita, in a ground fog that hid the field from sight part way down the back stretch, Kentucky-owned Old Rockport came from behind to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby. The most exciting thing about Old Rockport's victory: his mutuel price...
...have had a great deal of glorification of the Catholic and Jewish religions. We must not lose sight. . . that the vast majority of our people, and our critics, are of the Protestant faith...