542...Catholic School News

I went to Catholic School in Ottawa, and boy, if there is a more violent group of individuals than Roman Catholic Nuns I would like you to point them out.

Pound for pound the penguin nuns [or is that Penguin Nuns?] at St. Mary's on Young Street were ten times tougher than the United States Marine Corps.

Case in point, Sister Mavis Jewell, from the Albany area in New York. As Humberto Martinez writes in this morning's Albany Times-Union, Sister is celebrating her 50th anniversary as a nun and at her party last night at DePaul Provincial House in suburban Albany she was asked to recount some of her more memorable fights as a Sister of Charity.

Number one was in her student days when a man came into a ward that she was working in. He had a gun and told her to give him a key to the narcotics cabinet or be shot. Bad idea. "I took my shoe and threw it straight at his Adam's apple, knocking him out." Crook with gun; nun with shoe. What ever was he thinking?

I still think that Sister Anna Clare, St. Mary's principal, would have taken her in out in two rounds, especially if allowed to use her yardstick.

Still, impressive work by Sister Jewell.

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355...Ed McMahon, Later

Ed McMahon, 86, most famous for his work as Johnny Carson's sidekick on The Tonight Show, V.3, from 1962 to 1992, and as the host of Star Search from 1983 to 1995, died earlier today in his hometown of Los Angeles.

Mr. McMahon, who's signature phrase was "Hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeee's Johnny", also was a Marine pilot in World War Two and in the Korean War. He ended his military career as a Brigadier eneral in the California Air National Guard.

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