Word: alma
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...State Domenico Cardinal Tardini, himself a former student at the seminary. Arriving at the chapel, His Holiness seemed disappointed at not finding the portrait of St. Francis he still remembered (it had been stored during World War II and never put back). Later, before presenting a gift to his alma mater and taking coffee and cakes with his hosts, the Pope addressed 85 awed seminarians on the school's tennis court, remarked. "Fifty years ago we were here, and now you are here...
...founda tion headed by General of the Army Omar N. Bradley. Last week Bradley announced that the first of three volumes of an authorized biography of Marshall, written by ex-Army Historian Forrest C. Pogue, will be published in 1963. Royalties will help establish a Marshall Library at his alma mater, the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington...
Died. John Francis Cardinal O'Hara, 72, one of six U.S. cardinals, president of the University of Notre Dame (his alma mater) from 1934 to 1940, administrator of the U.S. Armed Forces' Catholic chaplains during World War II, and since 1952 the unassuming Archbishop of Philadelphia, who often answered his own doorbell ("How else can I meet the poor?"); following surgery; in Philadelphia...
...league-leading Pittsburgh Pirates' star shortstop, Dick Groat, popped up into politics by declaring himself four-square behind Richard Nixon for the presidency. Groat was a onetime roommate of Nixon's younger (now 30) brother Ed at Nixon's law school alma mater, Duke University. After thus going on record, Infielder Groat was greeted by a few boos along with the cheers when the Pirates met the Philadelphia Phillies in a doubleheader. He silenced the booers by slamming six hits in eight turns at bat, helped push the Pirates to two victories...
Leis & Poi. Next came Nixon's own home territory, Los Angeles. Welcomed at the airport by 5,000 cheering people and one baby elephant, Nixon led a motorcade to his alma mater, Quaker-run Whittier College, found the football field jammed with 15,000 greeters. Next morning, on a chartered prop plane (to save the G.O.P. National Committee $11,000 more than a jet charter would have cost), Dick and Pat hurried on to Hawaii, spent two days there island hopping. Nixon campaigned as if he expected Hawaii's three electoral votes to decide the outcome in November...