Word: convention
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strengthen support inside the party. He courteously consulted ruffled deputies. He dashed off an earnest public message to Party Leader Alcide de Gasperi: "On my taking office . . . my first affectionate, devout and admiring thought goes to you." He made a personal trip out the New Appian Way to a convent where resides frail Don Luigi Sturzo, the aged priest who founded the Christian Democrat Party, was once Scelba's mentor (see box). Though Scelba was unable to persuade the last two Premiers (Amintore Fanfani and Giuseppe Pella) to serve in his cabinet, Attilio Piccioni, a right-winger, agreed...
Marie Dionne, 19, last-born, smallest and shyest of the famed quintuplets, said farewell to Papa and Mama Dionne in Callander, Ont., left for Quebec City to become a postulant in the convent of the Servants of the Very Holy Sacrament...
Eight months after abandoning her $3,500-a-week Hollywood job for a Sisters of Charity convent in Kansas, Cinemactress June Haver, 27, flew home to Los Angeles, her attempt to become a nun at an end. Photographers snapped her getting kissed by her stepfather and mother, Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Ottestad. Ill health was June's reason for returning to secular life: "I was a novice, and it means just that. It's a time of trial, and if you can't do it, well...
...Nineteen-year-old Quintuplet Marie Dionne, for whom half the world prayed when her life flickered for days after her birth, announced that she would become a nun. She will enter the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Quebec City this fall, a cloistered order devoted to perpetual adoration of the Holy Sacrament. "From now on," she said, "I will have an opportunity to repay those people who remembered me when I was in need...
...when the 32-year-old model caught the smiling Irish eye of the 58-year-old mayor of New York, they had both been married before. Mayor William O'Dwyer was two years a widower. In 1938, Texas-born, convent-bred Sloan Simpson had married an insurance executive named Carroll Dewey Hipp, a Protestant, in a civil ceremony, was divorced from him five years later. The Archdiocese of New York granted her a "declaration of free state," permitting her to marry again. Catholics are not recognized by the church as married unless they have had a Catholic wedding (though...