Word: angells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing less than an angel, handsomely disguised as Cary Grant, comes to ease the bishop's burdens. The first thing the angel takes off his hands is the bishop's wife (Loretta Young). In vain does the bishop protest her having so many dates with an angel. Matters advance until the angel, feeling all too human about the lady, makes her what seems dangerously like a celestial proposition. This horrifies her, and the angel reluctantly returns to a heaven which,he indicates clearly, is a hell of a place as far as he is concerned...
Authority's Angel. The Authority keeps clear of politics. It is run by twelve non-salaried commissioners (appointed by the governors of New York and New Jersey). The current chairman is Howard Stix Cullman, 56, dapper, hustling millionaire director of Cullman Bros., tobacco growers and merchants...
Yaleman Cullman has applied his business talents to many projects. During the depression, he became receiver for the famed Roxy Theater and put it on its feet. He is Broadway's best-known "angel," has helped back twelve hit plays. When a wire was sent asking him whether he would accept an appointment as commissioner of the Authority, Cullman characteristically replied: "Sure, but what...
...opening speeches were about such innocuous concerns as German unity and anti-Fascist solidarity. The Russian angel of the performance, a small, feral, red-eyed lieutenant colonel named Alexander Dymshitz, sat and beamed. But as the sessions wore on, the Reds could not resist the temptation to make political hay. Up stood one Vsevolod Vishnevsky, a Soviet author and war reporter in excellent standing with the Kremlin. He told how, during the siege of Leningrad, he had personally saved German anti-Fascist and classical literature from German bombs. That was all right, but he went...
...turn back even under Cuban Navy guns, was asked to say a few words for the radio. He grabbed the mike, cursed Cuban Army Chief Genovevo Pérez Dámera as a traitor. When told to mind his words, he slugged the announcer with the mike. Angel Morales, chief of the Dominican exiles, blamed the failure on "destiny," vowed that the fight would...