Word: frawley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along with the members of the Cabinet and the White House staff. No Congressmen were invited, despite the years that Richard Nixon served there. Instead, there was the Rev. Billy Graham, Comedian Red Skelton, Mr. and Mrs. Art Linkletter and Eversharp Inc.'s chairman of the board, Patrick Frawley Jr. Mamie Eisenhower presided like a kind of surrogate grandmother. Martha Mitchell came extravagantly dressed in a vaguely antebellum orange and white ruffled, ankle-length gown and carrying a bright yellow parasol. She brought it into the Rose Garden, leading Melvin Laird to grump: "I thought everybody checked their umbrellas...
...latest symptom of crisis occurs this week when the National Register, a 43-year-old weekly Catholic newspaper supported widely by U.S. bishops, will be taken over by Twin Circle Publishing Co., a right-wing Catholic enterprise supported by Schick Millionaire Patrick J. Frawley...
Council Victim. The $500,000 purchase agreement, reportedly financed by Frawley, solved the immediate fiscal problems facing the Register publishers, Denver's Catholic Press Society. The paper's national edition was down from 190,000 at the beginning of 1969 to 112,000 recently; the number of its diocesan editions dropped from a high...
...Father Daniel Flaherty. But the emphasis on local diocesan life resulting from Vatican II was a more critical factor: several large dioceses decided to publish their own papers, leaving an enlarged Register printing plant underutilized. Now, as part of the sale agreement, Twin Circle-the original weekly backed by Frawley-will also be printed at the Denver plant, which stays in the hands of the former Register owners...
...views expressed by Lyons. Francis, who admits that Twin Circle is only "a journal of opinion," promises to make the Register into a "national Catholic newspaper of record." Whether he can do this under the watchful eye of Father Lyons, who will move to Denver from his offices in Frawley's Los Angeles building, is arguable. But Francis insists: "The Register is not going to be Twin Circle. If it is necessary to do any disassociating, I will show it by the content of the paper...