Word: cullman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorce Revealed. Hank Greenberg, 48, longtime slugging first baseman for the Detroit Tigers, member of the Hall of Fame; by Caral Greenberg, 43, daughter of Merchant Prince Bernard Gimbel (Gimbels. Saks); after 13 years of marriage, three children; in Cullman...
...described last fortnight by Jesuit Theologian Gustave A. Weigel (TIME, June 2). From the time it was founded 66 years ago until the end of World War II, St. Bernard's Benedictines and their Catholic students maintained an aloof hostility to the Baptists and Lutherans of nearby Cullman, Ala. (pop. 12,000). Occasionally, there was even violence; at one gown-town brawl a priest was bopped by a bottle. But after the war, two things happened: the G.I. Bill enabled more local boys to go to college than ever before, and the Rev. Brian J. Egan became St. Bernard...
...first, the Protestants of Cullman viewed this new friendliness with suspicion. But the fact that St. Bernard was the only college near by and, as Father Shanaghan says, "the country boys don't want to get far from mother's home cooking," brought more and more of them around. Enrollment jumped by 60 in 1956 (the year after Egan arrived), and three months ago Benedictine Egan was made president...
Greatest achievement of the new regime at St. Bernard has been in winning over the hard-shell Protestant businessmen of Cullman. To do this, the priests became civic boosters, joined the Chamber of Commerce leaders in lassoing new industry, notably a recently arrived cigar manufacturer, whose emissaries were entertained at the college (which knows how to throw a good cocktail party in a dry county). Says Cullman's Mayor Bill Arnold: "St. Bernard is the greatest institution we've got. For the first time we're beginning to feel a cultural upswing. Certainly St. Bernard...
Under the Wire. Good luck marked the U.S. Pavilion from the start. The World's Fair U.S. Commissioner-General Howard S. Cullman credits Stone's early planning, even before a final budget figure was available, with giving the U.S. the fast start that "was the difference between make or break." Belgium's top contractor, Emile Blaton. made the project his particular baby. As a result, the U.S. Pavilion, one of the last to get started in Brussels, is among the first to be completed. Even more remarkable is the fact that Architect Stone stayed within...