Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...rst year about 200 men visited the club each day and by 1943 that was up to 800.[11] The women volunteers, called the Morale Corps, would organize various themes for the dances as well as staff the offices and service desks and serve food and refreshments. The military men described
The Story of Duffy’s Cut
...l dead. Newspapers reported that cholera was to blame, though changing the number from 57 workers to about 8 or 9. Though commemorated and remembered by a few, which is indicated by a stone wall built in 1909, the story lay buried and forgotten. 1909 stone wall built by Martin
American Czestochowa
...f the Shrine quickly spread, the barn was becoming too small for the large number of pilgrims. The vision of a larger Shrine was realized when a solemn procession was led to nearby Beacon Hill on September 17, 1963. A year later, Cardinal Krol preside over a groundbreaking ceremony on
Nuclear War
...ning with negotiations in 1969, SALT resulted in an agreement to limit the number of ballistic missiles held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Wolf, “Which Way?” December 15, 1953 Wolf questions whether mankind will chose the path that leads to peace or the one that leads to nuclear war.