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Pridefully, Trujillo's radio station La Voz Dominicana reported the letter of capitulation addressed to "the benefactor of the fatherland" by the six bishops: "We are coming to Your Excellency with the wish to continue cooperating. There has been a deterioration in relations that we are the first to deplore. None of us could have suspected the misinterpretation given our pastoral letter. We are the first to condemn such distortions of truth. We do not say that there have been no imprudent acts in the ecclesiastical sphere. We acknowledge them. To this end, we propose 1) to remind...
...Benefactor of the Church? In the exchange of letters that reached the outside world last week, Trujillo tentatively accepted the bishop's truce offer: "We have devoted the most careful consideration to your intention to correct the imprudences which, as you loyally acknowledge, have been committed in the church...
...after his Allentown visit: "His [i.e., Hess's] office did pay my expenses of $1,000 to travel to Allentown for the story." Said Boyle: "I have mentioned Hess four times on subjects of feature-news interest." Only the Journal-American's O'Brian spurned his benefactor: he mentioned neither Hess nor the store in his column until Nov. 3, when he broke the story of Hess's having paid $10,000 to get a contestant on a TV quiz show for publicity purposes...
...collaborate with the unknown young Hart on Once in a Lifetime, there started a gentle comedy of errors almost as funny as the play itself. If Kaufman hated anything, it was cigar smoke and emotion; throughout their working sessions Hart puffed huge cigars and kept insisting on thanking his benefactor, not understanding why Kaufman kept rushing to the bathroom for refuge. On the other hand, Hart was a compulsive eater (success has since cured him of the affliction), but was too shy to admit his ravenous hunger; while Kaufman operated on their scripts with innumerable scalpel-sharp pencils, Hart would...
...Journey of the Corpse, the hero spends years of his life earning a huge ransom demanded by barbarians for a captured fellow townsman. He deserts his wife and child and starves himself to raise the money. Not until the ransom was paid did the benefactor meet the goad to his sense of sacrifice, a man who had once done him a casual favor...