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Such an answer would have astonished and perhaps irritated the assembled newsmen had it come from Eisenhower's Press Secretary Jim Hagerty. But it caused no fuss coming from Pierre Salinger, a pudgy, 35-year-old father of three who looks naked without a cigar clamped between his teeth. Reporters admired Hagerty's, efficiency; they personally are fond of Salinger, consider him their friend and ally in the incessant scramble for news...
...twelve which his proud father peddled to customers for one to three shillings. Two years later, in 1789, young Turner was admitted as a student to the Royal Academy at a council meeting presided over by the redoubtable Sir Joshua Reynolds. He was a small fuss-budget of a boy with unruly long curls and a large nose. He seldom spoke to anybody and confided in no one. His early watercolors are meticulously academic, but every year seemed to bring him new emancipation...
...article "Fuss in Puerto Rico" might be more appropriately entitled "Fuzz in P.R.", for it is indeed fuzzy thinking knowingly to vote for a party which uses public funds to run birth-control clinics, a party which has repeatedly refused to grant one hour a week off public school time (as is done in the U.S.) for religious instruction of the pupil's choice; it is indeed fuzzy thinking to vote for this party and still claim to be a Catholic...
Right & Duty. It seemed doubtful, despite the fuss, whether Munoz Marin would get much relief from the Vatican. Last winter, at a diocesan synod of Rome (TIME, Feb. 8), Pope John XXIII asserted the right and even duty of the church to advise the faithful on how to vote in elections. In practice, the Vatican seems to prefer that this right be exercised with great restraint by the hierarchy of the United States, to which the Puerto Rican bishops belong. But 90% Catholic Puerto Rico, though a part of the U.S., has a Spanish-speaking population and Spanish traditions...
...young nurses who propose to remove his drawers. "I'll do it myself if you don't mind.'' They do mind, and with Amazonian zest they pants the poor chap and dump him in the sack. "There now," one of them remarks, "what a fuss-about such a little thing...