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...Claire, Wis. was regularized the Episcopal status of Rev. Dr. John William Charles Toch Torok, 45, once a Hungarian Uniat Catholic priest. Imprisoned as a political suspect during Hungary's revolution, Dr. Torok escaped to the U. S. In 1921 he became a Hungarian Orthodox archdeacon in Fond du Lac, Wis., then an Episcopal priest. In 1924 he was consecrated Bishop in Vienna, by a Czechoslovak and a Serbian Orthodox Bishop. The Episcopalians of Wisconsin elected Dr. Torok suffragan Bishop...
...fortnight onetime Member of Parliament is Cyril Atkinson who at 61 sits upon the King's Bench Division of Britain's High Court of Justice. Fond of golfing, fishing, motoring, he has to remember a raft of things which few U. S. judges ever heard of. He must remember to wear his girdle, scarf, tippet, beaver hat, full-bottomed wig, ermine-trimmed hood & mantle on State occasions or when attending St. Paul's Cathedral. He must never wear his scarlet robe before Their Majesties the King & Queen. Yet he must mark the 24 Red Letter Days when...
...Gray, as he is called, when confronted with the job of playing at the Harvard-Yale Ball at the Copley Friday night, and a CRIMSON interviewer, didn't mind the unfairness of it all, but merely remarked that he was a college man, very used to it all, and fond of the Hub (but not over fond), comparing the district to a spring tonic (at any time of year...
...following the embargo of the War of 1812 and the collapse of the cotton market, Mrs. Blennerhassett wrote a melancholy elegy to her Ohio River home: Like mournful echo, from the silent tomb, That pines away upon the midnight air, While the pale moon breaks out, with fitful gloom; Fond memory turns with sad, but welcome care, To scenes of desolation and despair, Once bright with all that beauty could bestow, That peace could shed, or youthful fancy know To the fair isle reverts the pleasing dream. . . . In 1831 Harman Blennerhassett died. A decade later his widow...
...sprinting Minister Croll after anxious cogitation: "Mr. Hepburn can't quit! We won't let him." Assuming that he does quit, Hepburn, will return to his 600-acre cattle, onion and celery farm. There he was born and there at three years of age, according to his fond mother, he lisped, "I want to be a Politician...