Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, 82, continued to prove that age is not a bar to the full life. He struck a Greek-god pose (in a bathing suit) before displaying his diving and swimming skills to news photographers. He also celebrated the publication of his own summing up, A Philosophy for Our Time, a series of four sage lectures on 20th century democracy and capitalism, delivered earlier at his alma mater, the City College of New York. Baruch's central idea: "We in America have sought our goal of equality for all not by pulling everyone down...
...Chicago's Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, who resigned last month without explanation as head of the Catholic Youth Organization (rumors linked the resignation with the bishop's repeated attacks on Joe McCarthy), announced his plans for the future : "I intend to devote all of my available time and resources to the fight . . . against tyranny as represented by international Communism ... to show the destructiveness of Communism to individual morality and to the political morality of the world...
Among the first to approve the restoration was the ancient Expertizer of Renaissance Art, Bernard Berenson, 89, who climbed a scaffold to examine the picture minutely. He reported afterwards: "I felt that I had touched bottom . . . and that I was gazing on the true painting of Leonardo, spoiled, to be sure, by the centuries, but no longer smeared by incompetent hands. [At] a few yards . . . the figures emerged as if from a mist, large and imposing. Space was full of their presence...
...Bernard Deutch, a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania and a former student at Cornell, admitted membership in the Communist Party, agreed to tell the committee of his own actions in the party, but refused because of "moral scruples," to reveal the names of any of his associates or the place of meeting of the Cornell "cell...
Chicago's popular, liberal Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil. 66, last week announced his resignation as head of the Catholic Youth Organization, a group which he founded 24 years ago, and which now has some 5,000,000 members. No reason was given by Sheil or by Samuel Cardinal Stritch, who announced that Shell's successor would be Monsignor Edward J. Kelly, long active in the C.Y.O. But speculation inevitably reverted to Bishop Sheil's famed blast at Senator Joseph McCarthy last April, which antagonized many Roman Catholic laymen and clergy. Most widely heard explanation: Sheil...