Religion: Margolies' Yeshiva

In Manhattan last week two white-bearded men of almost exactly the same short stature spoke to each other.

Said the first, whose white beard is short, trimmed: "I have given to this institution as chairman of the building committee three years of my entire time and energy. I have had no time whatsoever for my own business, which has been entirely neglected, besides having divorced myself from all other institutions with which I have been connected for 42 years. ... I therefore propose that this venerable rabbi shall be elected president of this great...

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