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- Title
- Prelate's rating: Jet pilot.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: C-29780 PRELATE’S RATING: JET PILOT BOSTON -- How strong are you? Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, finds out by clubbing the Hi-Striker at Boston’s Nantasket Beach. The occasion was the cardinal’s 68th birthday, and he celebrated it by taking some 250 old people to the amusement park from the Little Sisters of the Poor homes in Roxbury and Somerville. His guests ranged in age from 70 to 98. At the park, the cardinal sang with the barbershop quartet and rode the roller coaster with a group of nuns. His strength on the Hi-Striker? Cardinal range the bell at 2700 (truck driver) and 2900 (jet pilot). Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EM-BOS-8E-63-RB)
- Creator Name(s)
- Mason, Ed. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1963
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Bishops., Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970., Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970--Birth., Paragon Park (Nantasket Beach, Mass.)
- Topical Subject(s)
- Bishops--Massachusetts--Nantasket Beach., Birthday parties--Massachusetts--Nantasket Beach., Amusement parks--Massachusetts--Nantasket Beach., Carnival games--Massachusetts--Nantasket Beach.
- Geographic subjects
- Massachusetts, Nantasket Beach., Massachusetts, Nantasket Beach., Massachusetts, Nantasket Beach., Massachusetts, Nantasket Beach., Nantasket Beach (Mass.), North and Central America--United States--Massachusetts--Plymouth--Nantasket Beach
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. C-29780; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_C-29780
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:358045
- Title
- Cardinal Cushing on 86th birthday at carnival.
- Date Created
- 1963
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Bishops., Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970., Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970--Birth., Paragon Park (Nantasket Beach, Mass.)
- Topical Subject(s)
- Bishops--Massachusetts--Nantasket Beach., Birthday parties--Massachusetts--Nantasket Beach., Amusement parks--Massachusetts--Nantasket Beach., Carnival games--Massachusetts--Nantasket Beach.
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. C-29780; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_C-29780_02
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:357939