Word: episcopalian
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...lifetime of just such preparation, plus a shrewd sense of utility, has established Arlene as the first lady of TV-and probably the highest paid. Toughest hurdle was Papa Kazanjian, who bundled Episcopalian Arlene off to a Roman Catholic convent when she was seven, later put her in Manhattan's flossy Finch School for proper young ladies. In a final, futile effort to steer her clear of the theater, he bought her a gift shop on Madison Avenue (Studio d'Arlene), which closed in the Depression. Soon a toughened veteran of the soap-opera circuit (Big Sister, Aunt...
...treated by them as near equals precisely because they make no unseemly claims to equality, e.g., in Arthur Winner's church, the Negro sexton deferentially takes communion last. Racially barbed is Cozzens' depiction of Eliot Woolf, a razor-sharp New York lawyer and a Jew-turned-Episcopalian whose "astute smelling-out of every little advantage . . . outside due process" makes Arthur Winner slightly queasy...
...should be a man.' He looked at me with a certain disgust, and Mother would say, 'Oh, but think how intelligent he is!' He was a practical man. and he was bitterly disappointed in me. and would be today. He was an austere Episcopalian who knew his duty and did it. He wouldn't think writing was man's work. I still think he was right, if the truth were told. If I could have been a really efficient athlete, I never would have written another line...
...soap salesman's knack for making new friends, introduces himself to strangers as "McElroy of Procter & Gamble." He enjoys parties, tennis, fishing, poker and bridge, tries to spend weekends with wife Camilla, son Malcolm, 14, daughter Nancy, 21 (another daughter, Barbara, 19, is married), is a working Episcopalian. At the office he is a stickler for accuracy, delegates large chunks of responsibility, expects subordinates to back up suggestions and arguments with facts. To forestall a conflict-of-interest problem, he will sell $56,000 worth of General Electric and Chrysler stock, and resign as director of both companies...
...Moore (real name: Thomas Garrison Morfit) once announced that he was giving St. Christopher medals to members of his staff. Some viewers, believing him to be Jewish, berated him for hypocrisy in giving a Catholic talisman. Others, taking him for a Catholic, admonished him for plugging his religion. Says Episcopalian Moore: "If you say 'Happy Mother's Day,' someone's going to write in and say, 'What's the matter? You don't like your father...