The Leper Spy (2017)
“The balding Jesuit spent his life ministering to junkies in the slums, covering Mass in the black parishes, and shooting pool with ex-cons in smoky barrooms. And when he worked as a chaplain for the Pacific Air Service Command at Nichols Field in Manila just after the war, he took to driving two hours over bumpy roads every Sunday to visit the afflicted at Tala and especially his friend Joey. He never came empty handed and he never forgot about her even after his stint as chaplain ended and he wound up as head of Queen’s Work in St. Louis, Missouri. They corresponded by mail, and when he learned of her predicament and learned that there was a slight possibility that she could get permission to travel to Carville for treatment, he sat down and fashioned a passionate letter to a friend of a friend, Eugene Cronk, vice president and treasurer of the D’Arcy Advertising Company in St. Louis, which represented Coca-Cola and had offices in Atlanta and New York. Zimmerman had learned from the ...newspaper that things were falling into place, but the consul general of Manila had refused to grant Joey a visa and referred the case instead to US attorney general Tom Clark.MoreLess
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