Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most significant aspect of his seven years in the Vatican was his friendship with Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII. No two men could have presented a greater contrast. Thin to the point of ascetism, Pacelli towered over Spellman, whose round, beaming face invariably drew the adjective "cherubic." Yet when the chubby Yankee Irishman was consecrated a bishop in St. Peter's in 1932, he wore the same vestments that the patrician Roman had worn at his own consecration. Returning to the U.S., Spellman served as auxiliary bishop of Boston and two months after the elevation of Pius...
...different view. The Tobacco Institute countered that there remains "no scientific evidence" that human health is affected by tar or nicotine. As for the tests, the institute complained that the FTC did not cover all 150 varieties of cigarettes available. Its big beef over butt length in the tests drew some surprising support from within the FTC itself...
Died. John Franklin Carter, 70, author and onetime Washington columnist; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. His 30-odd books of politics, economics and biography (La Guardia, Drew Pearson) were always bright, often incisive studies of the times and its men. His syndicated column, "We, The People," written from 1936 to 1948 under the pen name Jay Franklin, crisply and authoritatively chronicled the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations -and Carter scored one notable coup when, almost alone, he predicted HST's 1948 election victory...
...formal rhythms and precise images with deliberately chosen colloquialisms and small mistakes in grammar, both creating characterization and recreating the formal journalistic idiom of the period. Reporting the market crash, the Heraldreporter ends his news story with, "Threats against Fisk are freely indulged in." Fisk's early employer Daniel Drew prays, "Deliver me from the House of the Harlot, Lord, and from the rest of this here lewd company who don't give two bits for Thy commandments...
Mayer's inversions are often tragically funny in context; Drew again, on being excluded from the business operations: "Them boys is getting a damn sight too cute." Fisk's dialog masterfully combines bad grammar and vernacular with innumerable phrases from the Bible. "Poor suffering bastards," he yells at the crowd he has cheated, "You want your money? It has gone where the woodbine twineth...