Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worried colleague talked McClellan into going along to a friend's Washington home, where "a very attractive lady" was visiting. McClellan went, reluctantly-and then he saw the lady. "I'll never forget," says McClellan. "She came down the steps of the house wearing a picture blue hat and a blue dress, a beautiful lady in blue." The lady in blue was a widow from North Carolina, Norma Myers Cheatham. She is now Norma Myers McClellan...
...consistory lasting only four minutes and 35 seconds-the shortest of his reign-Pope Pius XII last week conferred the galero (the cardinal's red hat) on Poland's primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski (TIME, May 20). Reason for the brevity was that the protocol of a longer ceremony would have required the presence of Poland's accredited envoy at the Holy See, who represents not the present Communist regime but the World War II, right-wing government in exile, still hanging on in London. This would have embarrassed Wyszynski in his dealings with the Communist government...
Hungary Prevented. Stefan Wyszynski was in Rome last week to get, among other things, the cardinal's red hat that was awarded him in absentia in 1953, for he had been unable to pick it up in person. The chief reason: for three years, until last October, Wyszynski was a prisoner of the Communists. A cardinal's hat is red to symbolize its wearer's willingness to defend the faith "even unto the shedding of his blood.'' But Wyszynski's greatness lies in his prevention of bloodshed...
...crowd that met him at Rome's Terminal Station two days later was scarcely less enthusiastic. But the enthusiasm did not seem to reach the Vatican. The cardinal was met only by minor dignitaries; it was announced that the red hat would be handed over without ceremony and that the Pope would not be able to see his visitor until this week. Vatican spokesmen explained that the cardinal needed rest after his journey and His Holiness was unusually busy-in fact, he had a longstanding appointment with Rome's fire brigade...
...Brooke worked more closely with the Prime Minister than anyone else, and much of the book is designed to make it plain that, without Alan Brooke, Winnie would certainly have gone off the rails with catastrophic frequency. Most of Bryant's story will be old hat to those who have read Churchill's history. Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe and Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. What gives it immediacy and historical stature is the day-by-day evidence of the reticent professional soldier who made his plan, stuck to it throughout and often persuaded seemingly...