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...weavers, Kolbe was renowned in Polish Catholic circles long before his heroic death at Auschwitz. Fiercely devoted to the Virgin Mary, Kolbe, though often gravely ill with tuberculosis, founded a sizable Marian society, and followers started "Maryvilles" in Japan, Brazil and Illinois. Kolbe also created Niepokalanow, which became the world's largest friary. In this self-contained community of 800, the priests and brothers served in every role from fireman to mechanic. Before World War II, the friary's monthly magazine, Knight of the Immaculate, boasted an impressive 1 million circulation. Members of the community also...
...Rudy, still a virgin, looks back over the wreckage of his life. He recalls the husband of his victim warning: "We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly wicked wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM...
Bergström's explorations of this virgin territory earned him the sobriquet "father of prostaglandin chemistry" and last week an even greater honor, the Nobel Prize in Medicine. The 66-year-old Swede shared the award and $157,500 with two other pioneers of PG research: Bengt Samuelsson, 48, a former student of Bergström's and his colleague at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, and British Pharmacologist John Vane, 55, of Wellcome Research Laboratories in Beckenham, England. All three received the news in Boston, where they were helping to celebrate Harvard Medical School...
PITY Prince Andrew, age 22. All he wanted, as the British are so lond of saying, was to have a little fun But when mommy and grandma are queens, and your older brother has just married the virgin next door, fun of the sort the Prince sought last week in the Caribbean can be difficult to come...
...open in Boston, in turn follows the real-life story of bankrupt Irishman who dreams of producing the operas Carcuso in the Brazilian jungle. To raise the necessary capital to back his production, he decides to cash in on the rubber boom by taking a steamship to virgin tracts of jungle, carrying it a mile overland to an otherwise inaccessible river. The real Fitzcarraldo (so named because the natives could not pronounce Fitzgerald) cut a 20-ton steamship into 15 pieces to accomplish his made task. Herzog, in his reenactment, does not regard that as enough of a challenge, opting...