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...decades, the Catholic population of the New York archdiocese (including Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, and seven suburban counties) grew 50% to 1,558,328; the number of auxiliary bishops had risen from one to nine; the number of elementary and high schools had increased from 307 to 412; tireless Fund Raiser Spellman has chalked up $41,322,074 through his annual fund appeal for Catholic Charities. Born in Whitman, Mass., moonfaced, articulate Frank Spellman ran errands for his father's grocery, played sandlot baseball, boxed in a village barn, became an altar boy at the local church. After...
Apart from its mission of feeding facts to farmers, the Journal is a tireless, effective crusader on issues great and small. In 1953, within six months after the magazine had demanded, "Let's Make 'Em Cook Raw Garbage" (to kill the vesicular exanthema virus that can infect hogs), 28 states enacted appropriate laws. Currently, Editor Streeter is busily engaged in a crusade in which the stakes are no less than the future of the American farmer, afflicted as he is by a self-defeating Government program that this fiscal year is costing the U.S. taxpayer a scandalous...
...sportive whale, she must be handled more like an airplane than a ship. Her pilot, copilot and engineer are strapped tight in airplane-type seats, steering in three dimensions with an aircraftlike "stick." And as Skipjack dives and banks and turns in the dark depths, propelled by her tireless nuclear engine, the rest of the 83-man crew hang on for dear life. Only when the Skipjack comes to the surface does she tend to wallow clumsily like a surfaced whale...
Swathed in yards of bandages, mop-haired Pianist Van Cliburn, 24, walked shakily from a Manhattan hospital, an operation on the infected third finger of his right hand a success. Barred from the keyboard for at least two months, tireless Van, who has pounded away at some 90 concerts since his return from Russia last May, seemed almost resigned to trying a slower pace: "My doctor is trying to make me realize I must be more selfish, conserve my energy. If I don't, I won't be able to give anything to anybody...
...early M.A. is just an example of the many opportunities for advancement and special training that are opened each year to deserving students by the Program of Advanced Standing. Under Wilcox, a tireless innovator, the number of possibilities is sure to grow and multiply. As he told this fall's meeting of new Sophomores, "You are the program. We will try to help you do anything that seems reasonable and fair...