Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opponents. Only once did Colonel McCormick falter. When General Zwicker faced the Senator's invective, army veteran McCormick reflected and said: "It seems to us that Senator McCarthy will better serve his cause if he learns to distinguish the role of investigator from the role of avenging angel." But after two weeks of retrospect, the Tribune eased back into the Senator's fold: "Senator McCarthy has been trying to clean out some of the subversive characters that the New Deal planted in the Government services. If he has made a few mistakes, that is only human. There is no doubt...
Fighting their dirty way through this negligible plot the actors treat their parts with the lack of delicacy and taste that can be expected of their-rate talents. Enough it is to list some of their stage names: betty Bartley, Adrienne Angel, John Shanks. Only Nina Olivetti seems to have the faintest idea of what acting is all about. This she shows by winking broadly at the audience whenever she gets off a particularly sly dig at decency...
Even the Chicago Tribune deserted McCarthy in the Stevens fight, saying: "Senator McCarthy will better serve his cause if he learns to distinguish the role of investigator from the role of avenging angel . . . There was ... no reason to doubt the general's good faith. There is nothing ... to suggest that he was a party to a conspiracy to protect Communists . . . Senator McCarthy's behavior toward General Zwicker . . . has injured his cause of driving the disloyal from the Government service." The Tribune, no doubt, will return to the McCarthy corner, but its editorial was a sharp warning that...
...through the British magazine Country Life one quiet afternoon, a priest of London's Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral was struck by a group of photographs. They showed four panels by Bartolommeo Montagna, a minor master of the late 15th century Venetian school. Two of the panels, representing the Angel and the Virgin of the Annunciation, eventually passed into the collection of New College, Oxford. The other two were known only from watercolor copies; the originals had vanished...
...again. Last week Anne ("Nancy") Elaine Harrison, wife of the New Republic's publisher, fell heir to a third of the $35 million estate* left by her eccentric grandmother, Anita McCormick Elaine, International Harvester heiress, benefactress to the University of Chicago, Foundation for World Government and latter-day angel to such causes as the late Progressive Party and Manhattan's defunct pinko Daily Compass...