Word: greeley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ransom Stoddard, a young Eastern lawyer traveling West on Horace Greeley's advice, is in the stagecoach held up just outside of Shinbone by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), "the toughest man south of the Picket Wire." Trying to defend a woman passenger, Stoddard is beaten by Valance, left for dead, and brought to town by Tom Doniphon. Stoddard's first instinct is to demand the arrest of Liberty Valance; Doniphon tells him that law books mean nothing out West, that if Stoddard wants to take Valance, he'd better start carrying a hand...
Choquette received the Fredrick Greeley Crocker Trophy, which in recent years has been recognized as a "Most Valuable Player" designation. Crosby received the William Paine LaCroix Award, given yearly to the senior most outstanding for his enthusiasm, sportsmanship, and team spirit...
...Greeley Square store, with its two subterranean floors of bargain basement for subway shoppers, was an immediate success. On the strength of it, Bernard Gimbel took another chance. In 1923 he negotiated with Horace A. Saks to buy Saks's 34th Street store as well as the Fifth Avenue site where Saks was planning an uptown store. The negotiations took place partly in a railroad baggage car, where the two men sat atop an empty coffin and talked business. Saks's Cadillac-class merchandise now accounts for half of Gimbel Bros.' earnings...
Died. Bernard F. Gimbel, 81, empire builder of Greeley Square; of cancer; in Manhattan (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...gloomily, Thorman foresees the possibility of an era of what he calls "Uncatholicism, in which large numbers of the faithful will live their religious lives apart from official Catholicism-not fully leaving the church, but not really participating in its life either." Chicago's priest-sociologist, Father Andrew Greeley, co-author of a major study of religious attitudes in parochial schools (TIME, July 29), estimates that perhaps 10% of the nation's Catholic university students and seminarians share this attitude. "They are the brightest, probably even the most religious of the Catholics," he concludes. "They...