Word: dom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portugal's Congo, where every native has had his "Santu" or Christian name since the 16th Century, Dom Pedro V was once a monarch as absolute in his way as Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. A Portuguese army had helped enthrone him, and for 30 years they let him reign supreme over his subjects. Then in 1884 Europe began its mad scramble for Africa. Portugal's empire builders sent out their own resident governor, and Pedro and all his kind became mere pensioners. Last week, with 700 other pilgrims from Portugal's now tatterdemalion empire, another King...
Welling Tears. Old (75), coal-black Dom Pedro VII had little liking for official functions. He preferred cruising around Rome in a taxi with a couple of photographers. But when the time came for him to meet the Pope, he was determined to carry it off in regal style. Said he: "I shall be the first of my family, which dates from the Pharaohs, to meet the Pope...
...book begins with a belligerent introduction by a topflight fellow-designer, E. McKnight Kauffer, who thinks advertising art in the U.S. is "of the poorest quality" but makes an excep tion for Rand. The trouble with advertising art, Kauffer says, is "fright and [the] over-organized departments" of huckster-dom: "This in-between world of research, rationalization and sales talk no doubt gives the client faith and courage-but it generally kills the designer's value. . . . Fear, sex, maternity, snobbism, such are the themes of 90% of advertising that daily haunt our eyes. Hitting below the belt, appealing...
...cultural pursuits I know that Joe's not Dom DiMaggio...
...race-troubled Detroit last week, at the Church of St. Benedict the Moor, Solemn High Mass was celebrated by a tall, handsome Negro whose brown face and hands contrasted dramatically with the shining white of his alb. The Rev. Dom Basil Matthews, O.S.B., reputedly the first of his race to be ordained a Benedictine priest, had been invited by the Roman Catholic diocese to further its drive for interracial amity...