Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Which also publishes Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, House Beautiful, Bride and Home, Harper's Bazaar, Town and Country, Sports Afield, Motor Boating, American Druggist and Motor...
...were soon circulating through the Middle East that Russian promises had succeeded in lining up the votes of eight of the twelve attending archbishops-who are responsible for electing one of three candidates nominated by a council of religious and lay delegates. The Communists also circulated reports of an American imperialist plot to take over the patriarchate with Archbishop Antony Bashir of New York (a U.S. citizen born in Lebanon). The Reds played their final cards two days before the election, when a representative of the Patriarch of Moscow donated some $8,000 to "victims of the Lebanese revolution...
...Minute Conclave. The names of the two tying candidates were written on pieces of paper and dropped into a tarboosh. Father Paul W. Romley of Pittsburgh, a young American priest who does not read Arabic, drew one name. Out came the name of Moawad, and the pro-Soviet candidate was out of the running. Said one pro-Western prelate later: "The decision was left...
...Larger Than Life." The shrinking of the Atlantic is only one of many reasons for expanding British interest in American affairs. With an increase in tourism, Britons are returning from the U.S. with newly whetted appetites for news. Many British papers have added pages and elected to fill them with U.S. news. And through the austerity of postwar England shines the image of the fabulous States. "America has a glamour to British readers greater than any foreign country." says Correspondent Brittenden. "It offers a picture that seems slightly larger than life...
...generations, nearly every handy American boy read Popular Mechanics magazine. It was the bible of budding scientific and engineering genius, the blueprint to mechanical marvels and monstrosities. But in recent years the 56-year-old magazine has been hard pressed to compete with the wonders of the Missile and Atomic Age; for nearly a year Chicago's H. H. Windsor family has been trying to sell Popular Mechanics (circ. 1,325,735)-Last week it found a buyer: Hearst Corp.'s magazine division.-The buy was shrewdly calculated; magazine circulation is up 23% since 1950, while Hearst...