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...graying, former college basketball star, the Rev. Louis Gigante is no stranger to conflict. The Roman Catholic priest once broke up a city council meeting to protest official indifference toward his impoverished, crime-ridden parish in the South Bronx. He has picketed FBI offices to object to, among other things, identification of his brother Vincent as a Mafia soldier. Now Gigante is engaged in another battle. With the grudging acquiescence of his archbishop, New York's "fighting priest" is running for Congress. "People tell you all the time that a priest should not be a candidate, and they...
MANHATTAN COLLEGE Evelina Antonetty, L.H.D., executive director of United Bronx Parents. Andrew W. Cordier, LL.D., president of Columbia University. The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, Saint de la Salle Medal, president of the University of Notre Dame...
...glance, the burly, 62-year-old character actor seems an unlikely object of continental adulation or incontinent adoration. He is Bronx-born and irredeemably ugly; his voice has all the soothing qualities of a tugboat whistle. His brocade jackets and frilled shirts merely reinforce the impression of 19th century decadence. As a performer, Stander has only one style: the anthropoidal comic-heavy. Nor have two decades on Hollywood's unwritten blacklist enhanced his marketability. But Stander, who left the U.S. in 1964, has achieved extraordinary film success in Europe. He won raves as the mordant mobster in Roman Polanski...
Sovern has good reason for believing in "the system." Born in The Bronx, he was the son of a garment-industry salesman who went broke at the end of the Depression. He finished near the top of his class at the brainy Bronx High School of Science, graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College and went on to become the top student in Columbia Law School's class of 1955. After two years on the faculty of the University of Minnesota, he returned to teach labor law at Columbia, and in 1960 was promoted to full professor...
...winners of the Shaw are: Charles H. Curl of Leverett and Virginia Beach. Va. (Government): Francis P. Glosser, of Kirkland and Bucyrus, Ohio (English): Woody N. Peterson, of Leverett and Canton, Ohio (English): and Spence Porter of Winthrop and Bronx, N. Y. (Applied Math...