Word: cockers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Increasingly, priests and laymen disobey the orders of an immediate superior in the name of obedience to "the mind of the church." One striking example took place in England last month where Father Arnold McMahon of Worcestershire and Father Joseph Cocker of the Isle of Wight openly challenged the church's position on contraception. "The official teaching authority has decreed that contraception is always wrong," wrote Father McMahon in the Birmingham Post. "This is what I deny." It is also denied in practice by millions of Catholics. "They don't leave the church over birth control nowadays," says...
Died. Checkers, 12, Dick and Pat Nixon's black and white cocker spaniel, who at the age of three months got the most publicity of any dog since Fala when her master went on nationwide TV during the 1952 election campaign, explained that she was the only campaign gift (a fund of $18,000 was in question) that he had kept for his personal use; in Manhattan...
...rather lovely, sultry small voice. She made numerous concert tours with Johnny Hallyday, the French Presley, then became engaged to him, and now lives in his eight-room Paris apartment. The French army recently drafted Zzhonie and took him away. Now all she has at home is her cocker spaniel, Moliere...
What bothers him these days is the letter that, because of his syndication, arrives from some outlying paper a week or two late. "There is nothing more pathetic," says Miller, "than a letter dated ten days ago that reads: 'My eleven-year-old cocker spaniel shivered and wheezed all night. What...
This one-cylinder Barnum, this tower of sneers in tasseled shoes, this Shubert Alley Catiline, this mustachioed thane of the sceptered aisle, this Greek god, this other Edam, this papier-mãché genius, this blessed plotter, this doozer producer, this publicity addict who would send his cocker spaniel to Cape Canaveral if he thought it would get into space, this man, this David Merrick has done it again...