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World War II Candidates. The Vatican's new list of causes contains a number that date back for centuries; one of the longest-standing is that of the 15th century painter Fra Angelico, who is still only a "servant of God." But two potential saints owe their candidacies to World War II Nazi persecution. One is the Polish Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe, who was shipped to a concentration camp in 1939. There one day, Father Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a married man who had been scheduled for punishment. The penalty: death by starvation in Auschwitz...
...trial, a juror admitted to the judge that the mere mention of blood made him ill. Since the case before the court involved a brutal gunshot murder, he was hastily excused. After 21 trial days and 70 witnesses later, the remaining eleven jurors brought in their verdict, ending the longest-and one of the most spectacular-murder trials in British legal history. Found guilty and sentenced to hang next week for the murder of Michael Gregsten last summer was James Hanratty, 25, a petty criminal and mental defective...
...secondhand scarecrow, Husband Eddie Fisher flew back from a TV performance in Lisbon and hurried to his sick wife's bedside. Actor Richard Burton-who plays Mark Antony in the picture-flew in from Paris, where he had been moonlighting in a minor part in The Longest Day. Meanwhile, rumors flew every which...
Cleared Throat. At midnight comes one of radio's strangest and longest shows. Long John Nebel is on until 5 a.m. with a herd of beat and offbeat guests-flying-saucer spotters, clairvoyants, steam-locomotive buffs, all single-mindedly devoted to their own idiosyncrasies. Nebel greets the dawn undaunted by the knowledge that his audience of loyal fans consists mainly of insomniacs, night-blooming necromancers, and hash slingers in all-night diners. After Long John, the station clears its throat with a half-hour of music called Sunrise Serenade before John A. Gambling begins another garrulous...
Known as one of the leading tacticians in American football and a member of football's Hall of Fame, Harlow compiled a record of 45-39-7 in his 13-year tenure, the longest of any Harvard football coach. He resigned in January, 1943 because of ill health and was succeeded by Lloyd Jordan...