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...along." Not likely. Like the older Kennedy children, Teddy got by on an allowance of 10? to a quarter a week, cut grass for extra cash, worked a paper route. There were, of course, privileges unknown to most children; for example, Teddy received his first Communion from Pope Pius XII. But he still got his spankings with a coat hanger. Anything less than an all-out effort, whether in geometry or golf, was bound to bring a reprimand from his father. Recalls Sister Jean, the wife of Stephen Smith, who helps manage the family fortune: "Daddy always said, 'Never...
...Steven Watson, M.A., is a 46-year-old historian from Christ Church, Oxford, who has come to Harvard for the summer to teach modern English history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Behind him is a 600-page study of the reign of George III (Vol. XII of the Oxford History of England series). Ahead of him, he hopes, is the biography of Charles James Fox ("I am devoted...
...many Protestants, the clock of Catholicism appears to have stopped in the Middle Ages; Küng says they are wrong. Some major reforms of attitudes and actions-notably as a result of the Jesuits, the Council of Trent, and Popes Leo XIII, Pius XII and John XXIII-have been accomplished within the church. Küng argues that many of these changes have answered the initial demands of the Reformers. In historical scholarship, European Catholic writers nowadays exude sympathy for the motives of Luther...
...about 900 million of them"-the council will explore areas of practical cooperation between "the separated brethren" and the Roman Catholic Church. One area suggested by the cardinal was as timely as the afternoon headlines. "Imagine what it would mean to humanity," said the longtime confessor to Pope Pius XII, "if all Christians would march ahead completely united on the question of nuclear arms, disarmament and peace...
...June 1 VII MWF at 2 Wed., May 23 VIII MWF at 3 Th., May 24 IX MWF at 4 Th., May 24 X TuThs at 8 Tu., June 5 XI TuThs at 9 Sat., May 26 XII TuThs at 10 Mon., May 28 XIII TuThs at 11 Mon., June 4 XIV TuThs at 12 Wed., May 23 XV TuThs at 1 Tu., June 5 XVI TuThs at 2 Tu., June 5 XVII TuThs at 3 Fri., June 1 XVIII TuThs at 4 Fri., June...