Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dingy row of buildings on London's Long Acre, there steps a sandy-haired, neat, London-born Jew, 67-year-old Julius Salter Elias, chairman and managing director of Odhams Press Ltd. He is the most diligent figure in Britain's newspaper world. In his silver-&-black modernistic office he works 16 hours on weekdays, eight on Sundays. Every night at 10 he telephones his press superintendent to get last-minute details of headlines, pictures, stories. Austerely aloof, this lone wolf of Fleet Street, who envies Press Barons Beaverbrook and Rothermere only their titles, seldom talks to them...
...black-cassocked Jesuits, who more than any other Catholic fathers are at home in the drawing rooms of the rich and great, the acquisition of "Inisfada" was almost routine. Though they enjoy no personal property, many Jesuits work and study in places like the vast Massachusetts estate of the late W. E. D. Stokes, and in the hotel at West Baden, Ind. which the late Edward Ballard gave them. To the giver-away of "Inisfada" and its treasures, Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady, the decision she made public last week marked a definite turning point in an unusual life...
...recent months black-clad Jesuits have been seen about the estate, while a famed Jesuit, Very Rev. William Coleman Nevils, onetime president of Georgetown University, acted as negotiator of details with Mrs. Brady. To North Hills, the village (339 population) in whose boundaries lies the $8,000,000 Brady property, on which it has levied taxes for 16 years, last week's announcement was a shock. In a quandary was the village's Mayor Malcolm Pratt ("Mac") Aldrich...
What the Vatican is to Catholics, the Ganges to Hindus and Fujiyama to Japanese, a small black meteor head-high in the southeast corner of a rough stone building called the Kaaba in Mecca is to Mohammedans. Every Moslem plans someday to make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to kiss this most sacred of all objects, the Black Stone. On camel, burro, foot and occasionally hands & knees, some 70,000 devotees annually make the hajj over the desert sands to Mecca. Last week, fat, wealthy Mussulmen loath to subject themselves to such a hot, dusty, brigand-infested journey...
Died. Sir Guy Standing, 63, versatile British actor; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He commanded a destroyer in the War, was knighted for service with the British War Mission to the U. S. in 1918. A talented pianist and marine artist, he had not been well since a Black Widow spider bit him during the filming of Lives of a Bengal Lancer...