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...Another U. S. candidate is an Indian girl named Catherine Tekakwitha (1656-1680), for whose beatification proceedings were begun by the Bishop of Albany in 1931. Steps toward canonization include examination of the candi date's writings, collection of evidence on martyr dom or heroic practice of the theological virtues - faith, hope and charity - and the four great moral virtues - prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. Evidence of two miracles worked before beatification and two afterward is required for canonization...
Author Roberts gives Deterding plenty of credit for winning the Allies' war. Sir Henri's part in the post-War oil scramble was less heroic. The U. S. S. R. nationalized the Baku oilfields and Sir Henri never got over it. He began to fulminate against the Bolsheviks in the press and. Author Roberts implies, to plot against them in secret. But the Bolsheviks were too smart for him. Author Roberts thinks his backing of Hitler and his admiration for Mussolini are based on his hatred of Communism, which was born of frustration when he lost...
...history's most heroic acts . . . an act of perfect courage" was what President Theodore Roosevelt called it when, during target practice off Pensacola in 1904, Chief Gunner's Mate Mons Monssen of the battleship Missouri* crawled into the magazine after an explosion had already killed 29 men and injured five, and with bare hands beat out a fire which would have killed 600 more had it reached the powder room. Mate Monssen got a Congressional Medal. In 1925 he retired, a lieutenant. In 1930 he died. This spring the Navy Department notified Hero Monssen's widow that...
...really good lick destiny got in was his marriage to serious, social-minded Eleanor Roosevelt. Among the many excellent and sobering results of his marriage, avers Ludwig, was that it trained him for keeping peace in Congress. Louis Howe's misanthropic advice checked his "easygoing nature." With his heroic fight against infantile paralysis, the playboy streak was eradicated. So far as Biographer Ludwig can see, the only remaining flaw in Roosevelt is a streak of Dutch stubbornness, and even that, he thinks, may be "Nature's compensation against his amiability." Even in tiny details he can find...
...their effort to sit quietly on Mrs. Samuel's bequest, the Fairmount Park Art Association reckoned without frizzle-bearded Joseph Bunford Samuel, Mrs. Samuel's husband. For Statue No. 1 in the series, Mr. Samuel himself commissioned Icelandic Sculptor Einar Jönsson to do a heroic bronze Viking, presented it to the Park. It was left to languish in a toolshed. Mr. Samuel thereupon began to fight. After several years he got the Viking put up at the end of Boathouse...