Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bedside called upon Jeanne de Valois for help. Last week the cause of Jeanne de Valois reached almost the end of the long road. In the Vatican's red damask Consistorial Hall, pink-cheeked Clemente Cardinal Micara rose and begged the Pope's permission to close her case. One by one the assembled cardinals rose and bowed to the papal throne; then, as the Pope asked each one for his opinion, each murmured "placet" (it pleases). The canonization, say church authorities, will almost certainly take place within the next year...
...empire from a barren, middling-sized headquarters on the 58th floor of Manhattan's Chrysler Building. There, he swivels between a clean work table, where he does his conferring, and a rolltop desk (always locked when he is away), where he does his thinking, figuring and secret dreaming. Close at hand are two small globes. (The big three-foot one on which he used to plan his routes and spot his far-flung bases, measuring off the distances with pieces of string, has been placed in the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences...
...this combination, Trippe adds meticulous planning-and an allout attack. Said one bureaucrat: "When you close the door to Pan Am, it comes in the window. And when you close the window, there they are, coming right through the wall." Trippe usually gets what he wants by getting there first...
...Mary Britton Miller took stock. She had written five volumes of poems and a rather good novel, In the Days of Thy Youth, a story of a deep attachment between twins. Yet Mary Miller had never produced a sound critical success, had never come close to authoring a bestseller. Was she, after all, just another New England spinster with literary inclinations...
...monetary masochists love it. There were 27,000 of them here Saturday and they crammed close to a million smackers through the mutual windows. By the time I left the paddock for the last race, they'd eaten all the hot dogs, guzzled all the orange soda, and started swilling warm beer...