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COMING SUNDAY The story of 'Silent Night'

It was Christmas Eve in 1818 and the young priest Joseph Mohr was despondent. The organ in St. Nikola Church, where he was serving in the Austrian village of Oberndorf near Salzburg, was broken.

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WWII Navy ace soaring at 100

“Working with such luminaries as Hyman Rickover and Elmo Zumwalt was not for the faint-hearted — and even Whitey did not come away unscathed,” biographer Peter Mersky wrote in his book, “Whitey.”

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