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...through preparations for this week's big celebration. Philadelphia's Cardinal Archbishop Dougherty himself was to be on hand; there would be more than a dozen bishops and scores of priests to celebrate a golden jubilee Mass in honor of the Rev. Joseph A. Skelly's 50th year as a priest and the 35th anniversary of the organization he founded. Only one man looked forward to the occasion "with much unpleasantness." Brushing the cigar ashes off his black suit, spry, 76-year-old Father Skelly complained: "They've all ganged...
Last week, as he celebrated his 50th anniversary as editor of the world's oldest picture magazine, plump, jolly Chef Ingram was performing the neat feat of turning out a tasty and tasteful journalistic meal without spice. "Whatever success we've had," says 73-year-old Captain (World War I) Ingram, "has been due to a policy of romance without sensation...
Last week to the grave in Jackson, Tenn. of John Luther Jones, folk hero of U.S. railroading, went fans from far & wide. The occasion: the 50th anniversary of the murky night when "Casey" Jones* died with his hand on the brake of the Illinois Central's crack Cannonball Express as it plowed into a freight train at Vaughan, Miss...
...name of the Germanic Museum has been changed to the "Busch-Resigned Museum of Germanic Culture" by vote of the President and Fellows. Provost Buck made the announcement yesterday, on the 50th anniversary of the opening of the opening of the institution...
Once again, Connie (Cornelius McGillicuddy) Mack, 87, beginning his 50th year as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, denied the annual rumor that he would retire at the end of the season: "It's-it's preposterous...