Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blue Angel, one block north, has just imported Charles Trenet, the new Maurice Chevalier. Cafe Society, down at Sheridan Square, has a trio of Art Tatum, Slam Stewart, and Everett Barksdale...
Marcello's downfall begins when he zealously volunteers for a role in a political murder plot, and funks it. At the same time he finds that Giulia, his angel of normality, has her Lesbian side. But he really goes to pieces when he finds that the man he shot years ago is alive & kicking. Marcello lives just long enough after that to realize that his whole life has been twisted by "a thing that never happened." Then he dies in an air raid...
...John the Divine. The window was planned by the late Bishop William T. Manning, who believed good sportsmanship and religion had much in common. To illustrate his point, the stained-glass window shows the symbolic figures of athletes surrounding medallions of Esau the hunter, Jacob wrestling with the Angel, and St. Paul with his advice to run a good race. On the wall will be added the names of some modern sports giants: Tennis Champion Robert D. Wrenn, baseball's Christy Mathewson, football's Walter Camp and hockey's Hobey Baker...
Keep the Change. Even for Texas, Hugh Cullen is a strange sort of angel for any university. He is a big, blunt man whose own schooling lasted exactly three years. At twelve, he was working in a candy store for $3 a week, at 17, was running a small cotton business. From there, he drifted into prospecting for oil, and after ten years of wildcatting, finally struck it rich. At Blue Ridge, outside of Houston, he hit a gusher. After that, he lost track of how many millions...
...from land that was once a forest, 46 buildings have sprung up on the Houston campus, including colleges of law, business, education, engineering, pharmacy and nursing. Over it all, Hugh Cullen keeps a fatherly eye. As chairman of the Board of Regents, as well as Houston's foremost angel, he never interferes with academic policy, does not even seem to care whether Houston has a big football team. At 70, he has only one plan for the university: "I'd like to give quite a few more millions to it," says...