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...School are unaware of her priestly status. Those who discover it are surprised, and often mention her dedication to the law. Heyward, who knows Hewitt well, having lived for many years in the same diocese as the law student, calls her friend "extraordinarily holy and fabulously committed." Walter J. Telfer, chairman of the Church and Ministry Department at Andover-Newton Theological Seminary, where Hewitt taught until this September, says Hewitt feels that learning the law is the best way she can serve her ministry, by representing those who cannot afford lawyers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Awaiting Recognition | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...JAMES L. TELFER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 21, 1968 | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...inmates averaged 6 ft. 1 in. tall, whereas the average for other Carstairs inmates was 5 ft. 7 in. In Mel bourne, Dr. Saul Wiener found that the same was true of four Australians, all XYY, who were doing time for murder, attempted murder or larceny. Dr. Mary A. Telfer of Pennsylvania's Elwyn Institute found five XYY abnormalities among 129 inmates at Pennsylvania prisons and penal hospitals selected for study because of their height...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetics: Of Chromosomes & Crime | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...DARIEL TELFER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 1, 1960 | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...progressively unzippered emotionally, The Caretakers also goes melodramatically berserk. One patient chokes to death in neglect, one attendant is strangled by an inmate, and a lecherous doctor who impregnates a nymphomaniac patient has his skull crushed by the woman's husband. Such aphrodisiac antics strongly suggest that Author Telfer's characters-the sick as well as the supposedly healthy-need a 72-hour cool-off in Hydro. But as a document of conditions in many state hospitals for the insane, now undergoing some exciting reforms (TIME, Nov. 16), the book will shock as well as arouse compassion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Snake or Passion Pit? | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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