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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Vatican reported last week that during the past five years, 12,000 Roman Catholic priests have been killed or imprisoned or exiled by Communist regimes. Some specifics...
...neither surprised nor dismayed. "We fully expected this to happen," he said. The group had been attacked twice before in La Sarre-once by a crowd, once by a pressure hose of the town fire department. The pattern was familiar in many towns of French Canada during the past decade since Baptists and other Protestant groups have stepped up their efforts to organize churches in the solidly Catholic towns and villages. This time, the attack on the evangelists caused an immediate uproar. Telegrams poured in on the La Sarre town council from Catholics and Protestants in Quebec and outside...
Today's teen-agers turned out to be less impressed by the past than by the present. Only 33% of them picked their heroes & heroines from history. (Franklin Roosevelt had passed Washington and Lincoln in this department, though Clara Barton still led among girls.) The real bandwagon movement (37% of the votes) is to contemporary stars of screen, sport, radio and the comics, Averill found. Tops among the heroes in these fields: Outfielder Ted Williams, Hollywood's Gene Autry, Esther Williams and Betty Grable, the comic-strip hero Joe Palooka...
...news brought a comment from another once-great Negro fighter, who had been out of the headlines for a long time. Said Harry Wills, now a Harlem landlord: "Louis is crazy." Harry Wills was thinking of past performances. Five former heavyweight champions* had tried comebacks. All had failed...
...been listening painfully and critically to my own voice for the past 45 years. I don't like my own voice a bit, but I have to put up with it. It's the only one I have...