Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wings Without Angels. Commonweal's point of view (which makes such conservative Catholic publications as the Brooklyn Tablet hopping mad) is presented each week by a triumvirate of devout but underpaid editors, aided by outside articles on politics, philosophy and the arts (for about a cent a word) from such contributors as Catholics Thomas Merton, Evelyn Waugh, Sean O'Faolain, non-Catholics Franz Werfel, Dorothy Thompson, Anglican W. H. Auden. The editors can print whatever they like because they have no publishing angel, no official ties with the Church...
Sandrino Verges! was on the lookout for the ideal woman. For an angel-faced Italian youngster of 16, his tastes were rather special. "First she resists, and then she lets you gradually kill her, bit by bit . . . I want the feeling of having something that defends itself and that you slowly crush and crush and crush until the life's crushed out of it." In the next room to his, sharing the same grubby apartment house, Sandrino finds someone to his sadistic little heart's desire...
Tales of Tomorrow (Fri. 9:30 p.m., ABC). The Dark Angel, with Meg Mundy, Sidney Blackmer...
...Angels in the Outfield," the newest diamond saga, has taken over Paul Douglas from the original. Douglas, playing manager to a score of real live Pittsburgh Pirates, is a man fashioned after the great Leo Durocher. His boisterousness seems to be responsible for the position of the Pirates, eighth in the National League. Then one day an Angel makes a deal with him whereby the Pirates get a pennant if Douglas calms down...
Irving Florman, self-made inventor (cigarette lighters, mine detectors), onetime Broadway play angel and songwriter (Chauve Souris), resigned last week as U.S. ambassador in La Paz. His diplomatic career had lasted 22 lively months. A heavy Democratic campaign contributor, Florman maintained generally good relations with the Bolivian government. But his relations with his own Government in Washington were always testy. After his appointment by President Truman, he spent a full year at La Paz without confirmation by the Senate; the appointment was not actively pushed by the State Department. Recalled for "consultations" with the President last May, he signed...