Word: ferrers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reform. During the 10th century-a "saeculum obscurum of the worst abuses in Church and Papacy"-the monasteries, notably the great Burgundian abbey of Cluny, provided both the spiritual means and the men to effect reform. Even before Luther broke from Rome, men like the Dominican Vincent Ferrer and the Franciscan Bernadine of Siena were working to renew Catholicism from within. Yet one major reason why the Vatican rejected Luther's cries for change was because "neither Rome nor the Church's leaders elsewhere were in a fit state to understand the spiritual needs...
Divorced. By Pop Singer Rosemary Clooney, 33: Actor-Director José Ferrer, 50, after nine years of marriage, five children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Grounds: mental cruelty. Settlement: a monthly $1,500 for Rosemary, $300 for each child...
...Phil Stong, in 1933 a hit movie with Will Rogers, Lew Ayres and Janet Gaynor, in 1945 a second hit movie with Dana Andrews, Jeanne Grain and Dick Haymes. And now State Fair has been turned into a (side bets accepted by Producer Charles Brackett and Director Jose Ferrer) third hit movie-with Pat Boone, Bobby Darin. Tom Ewell, Alice Faye, Pamela Tiffin, Ann-Margret, Wally Cox and an 800-lb. Hampshire hog named George. It may not win any Oscars, but durn if it don't take the blue ribbon for country corn...
While their lawyers squabbled over who should be supporting whom after their pending divorce. Songstress Rosemary Clooney (who said she earned only $55,000 last year while her husband was making four times as much) was granted $1,500-a-month interim alimony from Actor-Director José Ferrer and custody of their five children. Any chance of a reprieve for their eight-year, showcase marriage? "I hope so," said Ferrer. Corrected Rosie: "Not at this time...
...must to all model Hollywood couples, the living end came last week for restless Actor-Director José Ferrer, 49, and homebody Songstress Rosemary Clooney, 33. After bearing five little Ferrers in eight outwardly placid years of marriage, Rosie called on that grim reaper of cinematic matrimony, Lawyer Jerry Giesler, to file for divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty. "This will come as a surprise to all our friends," wept Rosie, "but it was no sudden decision on my part. Joe and I have had a difference of opinion as to a way of life, and for the children...