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When Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert R. McCormick died last spring, newsmen all over the U.S. wondered what changes would come in the paper without the Colonel's commanding, eccentric personality to steer it. Would the Trib, for example, drop some of his pet projects and peeves? Last week, amidst a number of almost imperceptible changes, the Trib stepped right out and put the ax to one of the Colonel's fondest innovations...
...August German occupation authorities ordered the arrest of all non-Aryan Catholics in Holland, and Sister Benedicta and Rosa were herded into a van and taken to a concentration camp. Amidst the suffering and despair at the camp, "Sister Benedicta walked about among the women, comforting, helping, soothing like an angel," an escaped Jewish businessman wrote later...
Morrow, who heard about the arrangement, brooded about his role as sacrificial calf. Loyalist Texas Democrats, who want Shivers' scalp, were equally upset by the dealings between him and the national party. Amidst the rumbling, Chairman Butler announced.his plans for a visit to Texas. His sponsors: the violently anti-Shivers Democratic Advisory Committee. Under the circumstances, his trip, hailed as a "peace mission," was likely to be anything...
...drew 150. Yet Texas was not entirely hostile territory. At Dallas, where Butler cut a three-foot cake (for his 50th birthday), 1,200 people showed up to eat and cheer. At Uvalde. former Vice President John Nance Garner, 86, who has puttered in privacy for 14 years amidst his pecan trees and chickens, surprisingly opened his gates and invited everybody to "come to my house and meet Mr. Butler." Butler aroused much enthusiasm among loyalist Democrats and got a respectful hearing from some Shivers Democrats who showed up at his rallies. Confidently, he predicted Governor Shivers' eventual return...
...replaced because Lanza's dogs preferred them to trees or fire hydrants, 2) the roof leaked badly after TV Fan Lanza's five antennas were ripped out, 3) a hand-carved piano leg was tooth-carved, 4) all doors had to be rehung. Wailed Mrs. Kaiser: "[Amidst] the debris, dirt, filth and desecration . . . only the ceilings were intact." Couple of days later, a long-postponed suit, brought against ex-Tenant Lanza by another Hollywood landlord asking $17,000 for Lanzarations wrought on another $200,000 mansion, came up for trial, was again put off (so that lawyers could...