Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, unable to finance the team for the remainder of the season, the Dallas owners dumped the whole mess back in the lap of N.F.L. Commissioner Bert Bell, who announced that the team would complete its schedule playing on the road. Texans who have been clamoring loudly for the transfer of a major-league baseball franchise (e.g., the St. Louis Cardinals) clearly had good reason now to restudy that project...
...hack as to brush aside the serious point of his story; rather, he responds just enough to betray it. Far more theater man than playwright, he has a way, whether with a scene's falling apart or a character's fate, of being saved by the bell - by someone on the phone or someone at the door. He seems less to chronicle suffering than to exploit it. But he respects the rules, he scrupulously obeys the sign reading No Unhappiness Permitted After 10:45 p.m., even if it entails the most false and banal of endings...
With Hat & Bell. Francis Xavier came out of his native Basque country of Navarre in 1525, an ambitious young nobleman, headed for studies and pleasure at the University of Paris. He was 23, a tutor and a convivial man about town, when he met his fellow Basque, Ignatius Loyola, who was to be the founder of the Society of Jesus. After that, his life changed. Sixteen years later, a priest and a single-minded evangelist, he left Lisbon on a Portuguese carrack to found the Jesuit missions in Asia. He never returned to Europe...
...vacant bench, waving his big hat, and shouting to loungers and marketing folk to come and listen to the Word of God." In "golden, heartless Goa," the citadel of Portugal's Asiatic colonies, he got crowds for his instructions by walking up & down the streets ringing a large bell. And when he found an audience, he held it. Writes Biographer Brodrick: "Perhaps they laughed at him to start with . . . but soon a hush would fall upon them because the love that shone in his dark bewitching eyes and burned on his stammering lips spoke to their hearts so eloquently...
...Diddle-Diddle (Phil Harris and the Bell Sisters; Victor). Basso-Crooner Harris goes back to his childhood here, but the tune is lively and the near nursery-rhyme lyrics pleasant...