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This book is called a novel about St. Francis of Assisi, but it is not so much a religious tale as a picture of the first two decades of the 13th Century. It is an historical tapestry into which is woven the story of how Francis, by his fabulous simplicity, got what he wanted both from the Pope in Rome and the infidel Sultan of Egypt, of how a tough and worldly French knight became King of Jerusalem against his will, of how thousands of the children of Christendom strangely vanished from their homes forever (on the Children...
...Milwaukee, the would-be Dewey delegation held a smoky, six-hour conference, spoke many a harsh word about their hero's 13th-hour repudiation. Seventeen of them-not for love of Dewey but because they cannot bear Willkie-decided to stick it out despite the Governor's "disapproval...
...Benedict was the first to bring discipline and order to these monks. From among his disciples he formed twelve monasteries of twelve monks each (in memory of Christ and His twelve Apostles). St. Benedict lived in a 13th abbey with "a few, such as he thought would more profit and be better instructed by his presence...
Appetizer. In Los Angeles, Ponciano Pena slipped through a 13th floor jail window, was balancing on the tenth-floor ledge when he was lured in by a jailer, who remarked that dinner was served...
...modest apartment on the eleventh floor of the Latino-Americana apartments in Mexico City, Jules Romains is at work on the 13th volume of Men of Good Will. He has been writing his vast serial for 13 year. He writes in longhand on his mahogany desk in the combination dining and living room, his back to the window that overlooks Mexico City to the south and, beyond it, the mountain ranges hemming in the Valley of Mexico. For six or seven hours each day, he traces out the involved characters and the complicated situations of the giant novel that already...