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...Politicians. St. Laurent had intended to name Father Georges-Henri Lévesque, 51, brilliant dean of the social-science faculty at Quebec's Laval University. Father Lévesque was ready to accept the post, and his Dominican Order approved. But the priest's diocesan superior, Quebec Archbishop Maurice Roy, vetoed it. Ottawa Archbishop Marie-Joseph Lemieux and Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger of Montreal agreed with Archbishop Roy's stand that the unprecedented * appointment of a priest to a political post might eventually embarrass the church...
Sophomore Ben Heckscher met last year's world open squash champion Henri Salaun in the final of the Massachusetts Championship last night, and lost by a score of 3 to 1. The victory at the University Club gave Salaun his sixth consecutive state title...
...foreign stamp on a letter that lay on the desk. As the teacher started to oblige, the boy had an afterthought: "Please, would you give me the whole envelope with your name on it? It will be worth lots of money some day." Even in children's minds, Henri Dubois, 37, mathematics teacher at the Technical College for Boys in the French city of Albi, is a famous man. All through the French Pyrenees his name can start bitter argument: he is an unfrocked Roman Catholic priest, excommunicated for heresy. No religious affair for a long time has stirred...
...priest as wonderful as you." A delegation from the villages went to Cardinal Saliège. Dubois pledged himself to preach the dogma he had already denied, because he said he found "nothing opposed" to it in the Bible. Cardinal Saliège did not change his mind. Henri Dubois took off his cassock, donned slacks and blue corduroy coat, and joined the French Reformed Protestant Church in Toulouse...
Every reader of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence knows who Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin was: the middle-aged Paris stockbroker who callously turned his back on business and family, fled to Tahiti and became a great painter amid the palm trees and dusky native maids. Devoted Gauguinists have damned the Maugham novel (in which the thinly disguised Gauguin is actually an Englishman named Charles Strickland) as six-pennyworth of moonshine. But they have never managed to scotch it. They never will, because the tale is essentially true...