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...young go-getters in Rochelle, Ill. (pop. 5,400), Frank and James Spellman were doing nicely buying, selling and trucking grain. Then they expanded, and bought a grain elevator. In 1949, they got a contract with the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corp. to store 200,000 bu. of grain. The Spellmans, both in their early 303, began expanding faster. They added to their fleet of trucks, worked into real-estate deals, began shipping grain to Chicago by rail...
...Cardinal Spellman was greeted in Formosa by Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, reported that 300 Catholic Chinese prisoners of war in Korea had begged him to try to get them to Formosa to join the Nationalist troops...
Taking along several thousand Talking Letter recording tapes, Cardinal Spellman left Manhattan to spend Christmas with the troops in Korea. Invited to make the holiday visit to the war zone by General James A. Van Fleet, the cardinal planned to arrive in time to say Christmas Mass "any place, even if it is in a cave. I'll be happier in Korea than any place else, even St. Patrick's Cathedral...
...veterans could no longer receive government aid if they studied there. The boys who belonged to the Center and worked on the outside for money were all fired from their jobs. According to Hall and Feeney's supporters, the New York Times and Herald-Tribune were asked by Cardinal Spellman not to publish reviews of Feeney's latest book. Cushing has similarly silenced the Boston press, Feeney claims...
Officials-Referee, Lawrence J. Spellman; Umpire, John M. Morlarty; Linesman, Kenneth O'Donnell; Field Judge, Leo J. Lannigan...