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...years of bitter poverty Mrs. Patrick Brown, a Dublin bricklayer's wife, bore 22 children, but only 13 lived. Halfway down the line came Christy. He could not hold his head up and his mouth, was lopsided. His hands jerked violently with no coordination; his right leg was equally useless. Doctors told Mrs. Brown that Christy was an imbecile (actually he had cerebral palsy from a brain injury before or during birth) and that his case was hopeless. With the medical knowledge of the early 1930s, the doctors were not far wrong...
...Faith is stronger than law," said Archbishop Luis María Martínez, drawing deeply on his cigarette. "Despite what has happened in the past, we are really not doing too badly." Outside, a brown-cowled Franciscan hurrying along the plaza bore out the Archbishop's point, for this was Mexico City, capital of a country whose 38-year-old constitution 1) forbids monastic orders, and through a statute also bans any kind of religious garb in public; 2) declares all churches, rectories and convents government property, and 3) gives state legislatures the power to determine the number...
Behind that angry statement was the firsthand knowledge, shared by high officials of the U.S. Government, that the Chinese Communists' soft words bore no resemblance to their intentions...
...against it. While the fad was still at its height, he walked Manhattan's 57th Street with his canvases under his arm, vainly trying to interest the dealers in his own new approach to painting. But when the slap and dab of abstract-expressionism began to become a bore, the time was ripe for Individualist Hultberg...
...admission, Californian Clifford Rue, 30, used to be a monumental bore. He was the kind of sports fan who never could wait for the morning papers, spent half his time on the telephone badgering newspaper editors for up-to-the-minute dope. "Look," said a harassed sportswriter when Rue called him once too often, "we can't afford to take time off to give people running accounts of every cursing fight and ball game. We wouldn't have time to do anything else...