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...Morrisania Church in The Bronx stands as one of New York's finest examples of 19th century Gothic architecture. Its façade bears a plaque noting that Philanthropist Gouverneur Morris II built the church in memory of his mother and that Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first Gouverneur Morris, who drafted the Constitution, are buried there. Nowadays no one notices the plaque, and the limestone structure is in bad repair. Once fashionable and famous, St. Ann's parish is today in the heart of one of the city's toughest...
...many collaborators was Herr Loebau, the engineer mentioned in your article, who is employed by the Rodriquez Shipyard. A capable and versatile engineer, Herr Loebau actually had no part in the original design of the boats in question. Neither had Signer Rodriquez, who, however, has rendered a great service in introducing the hydrofoil boat in commercial operation...
Reinhold Niebuhr, visiting professor of Theology, is a principal signer of a petition asking President Kennedy to pardon Junius Scales, a former North Carolina Communist serving a six-year prison sentence for violation of the Smith...
...this role, Norris Poulson, 65, an accountant and former Republican Congressman, is an unqualified success. He gets to his office promptly at 7:30 a.m., turns to his task with an unfettered spirit, and even his enemies admit that he is a superior civic greeter, ribbon snipper and proclamation signer. He achieved brief national fame in 1959, when he told Visitor Nikita Khrushchev off in no uncertain terms...
Piroshki & Klyukva. Wilson's ruble romance began in 1953, when he learned from travelers that Live with Lightning had been translated into Russian and was selling like piroshki. Although Russia is not a signer of the Universal Copyright Convention and ordinarily pirates foreign works without payment, Wilson wrote to Moscow and asked for royalties. He received no reply till two years later, when the Russians decided to serialize My Brother, and after a protracted exchange of cables deposited $6,000 in his U.S. bank account. Author Wilson has so far collected about $20,000, expects to make another...