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Orphaned at the age of seven, he "accepted Christ" after his contact with the priests of a Catholic mission in a small rice-growing district near Lansi, where he lived with his grandfather. At 18, he decided to become a priest, graduated from the Jesuits' Aurora University in Shanghai, went on to study in Rome and returned to China in 1933. Three years later, he was named Bishop of Nanking. But he never got much chance to work at it. First the Japanese overran Nanking in 1937 and put a $100,000 price on his head. His long exile...
This fraud, like the bogus Protocols of the Elders of Zion used against the Jews, has been spread by bigots for almost half a century. It first turned up in a congressional election in 1912 in a lunatic-fringe tract mailed from Aurora, Mo. The following year, a congressional committee investigating unfair election practices condemned the oath as a fabrication. At that time, the false oath was read into the Congressional Record, a fact that present-day bigots cite to lend it an air of authenticity. Ku Klux Klanners circulated it against Al Smith in 1928. It turned up again...
...write with the exception of my grocery list. I am torn between adding to the well-deserved tributes you will surely receive from Mr. Keables' former students and the fear that this letter will be published containing some terrible grammatical error. WILLA BEE ROBBINS HOLMES ('47) Aurora, Colo...
Besides watching Maverick, the boys spend the long 30-below-zero nights dreaming up tall tales to intrigue the tourists, come summer. Choice tales of yesteryear, apparently now out of circulation, related how much we relished ice worms for breakfast, how we mined gold with aureal (aurora borealis) energy, and how our engineering students built the Klon Dike...
...pamphlets, from "How to Cook Moosemeat" to "Hints for Wilderness Wives." Its four community colleges (Anchorage, Juneau, Ketchikan, Palmer) teach everything from aircraft maintenance to Tlingit Indian culture. To help exploit Alaska's rich resources, it rummages heaven and earth. The topflight Geophysical Institute has probably done more aurora borealis research than any other group in the world. The mining school, with its own mine under the campus, has taught 18,000 Alaskans how to find gold, uranium and tungsten. In the works: a new marine-science institute for studying a coastline longer than that of the rest...