Word: americans
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...Born in Whitman, Mass., moonfaced, articulate Frank Spellman ran errands for his father's grocery, played sandlot baseball, boxed in a village barn, became an altar boy at the local church. After graduating from Fordham University ('11), he studied for the priesthood at Rome's North American College. He served in the Boston archdiocese before the Vatican summoned him in 1925. As first U.S.-born staff member of the State Secretariate, Spellman translated and delivered in English the first papal radio broadcast, stayed for seven years, part of that time as attache to the Vatican...
...They think I'll be good for recruiting," said the flabby, long-haired teenager. "Look what a lift the American Army is getting because Elvis Presley* joined up." Thus, last January, Terence Williams, known as Terry Dene to millions of British rock-'n'-roll addicts, donned an army uniform and set out to do his bit for Blighty. Result for Britain's army: a nuisance, men, a ruddy nuisance...
Alarmed. In London, one reason why the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation refused Pan American World Airways permission to schedule 1:30 a.m. jet take-offs was that citizens of Longford -a town in direct line with London Airport's No. 1 runway-had threatened to make regular 1 :30 a.m. phone calls to the Minister of Transport, airport executives and others, saying: "Good morning, did I wake...
Political and medical leaders joined last week in urging Americans to take an introspective look at their individual and collective psyches. At famed Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington. Health Secretary Flemming rang in national Mental Health Week by clanging a "mental health bell" forged from the shackles once used to restrain patients. The volunteer National Association for Mental Health and its branches staged open-hospital days across the country, persuaded thousands of outsiders to come see for themselves what it is like on the inside. And in Philadelphia, birthplace of U.S. psychiatry and (in 1844) of the American Psychiatric Association...
Last week, with the case of the murderous petty officer as his text, the Menninger Clinic's Dr. Joseph Satten offered the American Psychiatric Association an explanation of a phenomenon that has long baffled both courts and psychiatrists. Most murderers fall into one of two neat classes: the legally sane, who have an understandable motive such as robbery, and the legally insane, such as the paranoid who kills his imagined persecutor. But now and then there appears a third type -the man who kills without apparent motive, yet appears sane before and after the crime...