Word: teresas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul VI gave her his white Lincoln Continental, which she raffled off to help the poor. In 1968. Paul called her from India to found a home for the poor, staffed mostly by Indian nuns, in Rome itself. Last week the Pontiff named Albanian-born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu -Mother Teresa of the Missionaries of Charity-the first winner of the $25,000 John XXIII Peace Prize...
Like other gifts to Mother Teresa, the money will go quickly to benefit the "poorest of the poor," to whom she has devoted her life. After two decades as a teaching nun in India, she received permission in 1948 to leave her order and work among Calcutta's impoverished masses. She set up outdoor schools and a dispensary and soon had a band of dedicated followers, who were officially recognized by the Vatican in 1950 as a new religious community. In 1952, the Missionaries of Charity -dressed in simple white, blue-bordered saris-won permission from Calcutta...
...with men, as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales pointedly witnesses. Indeed, St. Catherine of Siena earned her major fame by talking the Avignon pope into moving the papacy back to Rome. Partially in recognition of this, Pope Paul VI recently named her, along with the 16th century mystic, St. Teresa of Avila, "Doctor of the Church" -a title hitherto bestowed only upon...
...flashy week for pennyweighters-underworld argot for jewel thieves. Among the more prominent victims: Film Actress Maureen O'Hara, vacationing in Australia ($56,000 in jewels heisted from her Sydney hotel room); Singer Teresa Brewer (relieved in Las Vegas of a gold necklace and diamond ring valued at $5,300); TV's Virginia (Girl Talk) Graham ($75,000 in diamonds, pearls and sapphires missing from her hotel room in Chicago...
Finally, do you know where Larry Parks? Is Ann Sothern? Is Dame May Whitty? Is Cornel Wilde? Isn't Billy Wilder? Is Teresa Wright? What did Keenan Wynn? Isn't Loretta Young...