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...Much Zeal? Irish-born Brother Matthias joined the Order of St. John of God when he was only 15, in Dublin. After completing his training, he ran a refuge in Montreal for 14 years. From Montreal he was sent to Los Angeles to set up a new refuge, then to Boston to start another. There he ran into strong objectors who insisted that "those poor people you talk about helping are nothing but bums, and they always will be bums." Boston's Archbishop Gushing approved him in a sermon, but Brother Matthias' way of meeting opposition-head...
...Rome granted him permission to leave the order and join the Servants of the Paraclete in New Mexico. "I feel that St. John of God let me down badly," says Brother Matthias. "All I wanted was to continue my work. I suppose I showed a little bit too much zeal ... or perhaps they thought I was getting too worldly...
...confidently forecast by many a show-business oracle, is still to come. But last week the courtship was going swimmingly. In the role of Cupid was none other than the A.F.L.'s imperious James Caesar Petrillo, who watches over his American Federation of Musicians with all the protective zeal of an ambitious mother with a marriageable daughter. Sitting down with the representatives of Republic and Monogram studios, he quickly cleared away one obstacle that has prevented film companies from supplying television with movies made since 1946. Petrillo agreed to raise no objections to televising films, provided the studios...
...million Monsanto Chemical Co. In his spare time as an amateur photographer, Queeny spent nine years making 100,000 hard-to-get still shots of wild duck, finally put the best into a 1946 volume called Prairie Wings. Two years ago, with the same perfectionist's zeal, he set about making sound movies of African native and animal life...
Pentagon officers, fired with optimism (and zeal for the Truman Administration's wait-and-see policy in Korea), freely predicted that the Chinese Reds would soon be exhausted and would sue for peace. But even with exhaustion, the Reds had another choice. They could stop spilling their own blood, retire beyond the waist of Korea, around the 40th parallel, and sit there...