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Careers as well as martyrs were made that Easter Week, and among those who carved a future for himself was a young, gawky, until then unknown professor of mathematics. Given a battalion command, he led out 50 partly armed men to hold two miles of strategic railway line and canal in Dublin. First he seized Boland's flour mills and bakery as his headquarters. Then, as the British troops came nearer, he called his men together and addressed them: "You have but one life to live, and but one death to die. See that you do both like...
...prominent Sinn Feiners, including de Valera. The T.D.'s still at large then met, proclaimed the Irish Republic and named de Valera its "President." After that daring supporters smuggled the "President" out of jail, and the Irish "secret service" of Michael Collins, also a veteran of the Easter Rebellion, managed to get him on a ship to the U. S., long fertile ground for Irish nationalism. There he did what many another Irish patriot had done before-raised money and sympathy for the Irish cause...
...Pallia are woven annually from the fleece of two white lambs, blessed in Rome on the feast of St. Agnes (near-Latin for lamb), and sheared at Easter. An Archbishop must petition the Pope for his pallium, is awarded it at a consistory...
Last week, with its second full-length feature, Pinocchio, ready for a nationwide Easter Week opening, Walt Disney Productions applied to SEC for permission to sell 155,000 shares of $25 par, 6% cumulative convertible preferred stock. Purpose of the $3,875,000 offering: to pay off bank loans incurred in building the company's new studio at Burbank, Calif., and to provide working capital for four more features now in production: Bambi, Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, Fantasia...
Performing the difficult feat of shaking hands with everyone in Lowell House dining hall, Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master of Lowell House, celebrated a vigorous Easter yesterday...