Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economizing. Editor Michael Straight, whose family has footed the New Republic's steady deficit since 1914, had given up the dream of a slick-paper product with lavish displays of half-tones, big names and special art work. Gone, in the undertow of the economy wave, was a flock of staffers. The staff was still bigger than in pre-Wallace days, but the survivors had that worried "who's next" look. The trouble was that the magazine had been staffed and geared up for a 330,000 sale with advertising income to match, but printing problems had multiplied...
...Angeles got a new archbishop last week. Appointed by the Pope to tend the archdiocese's flock of 600,000 Roman Catholics was New York's tall, lean Coadjutor Archbishop James Francis Aloysius Mclntyre...
Said Archbishop Mclntyre last week: "The office of shepherd of a flock is a responsibility of highest dimension. . . . When that sheepfold is the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the responsibility becomes a challenge of magnitude...
After a while, Ye Yun Ho, 28, came to live at the dump. Like many members of his new "parish" he found himself a packing case and moved in, sharing his food with those who were worse off. On Sundays he gathered his flock together on the flats for simple services, and when the autumn winds blew cold, he began to build a church...
Presbyterian Ye calculates that he needs approximately $100 more to finish his dump-heap church. Last week the windows were glazed at last, and Ye and his flock of young Christian scavengers were praying hard for a new improvement-a floor to cover the frozen ground. But Ye Yun Ho was also thinking ahead...