Word: helene
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...Archbishop of New Orleans he led black children into Catholic schools as pickets protested integration. In his 17 years in Chicago, he ruled rigidly and created controversy. A federal grand jury was investigating charges that he had diverted $1 million in church funds to enrich a longtime friend, Helen Dolan Wilson. Said he: "Any accusations against the shepherd are also against the church...
...factor that may have helped this year was a pair of articles appearing in the New England Economic Review, authored by Helen F. Ladd, associate professor of City and Regional Planning at the Kennedy School of Government...
...DIED. Helen Lawrenson, 74, saucy, acerbic journalist and memoirist (Stranger at the Party; Whistling Girl), best known for her notorious 1936 article in Esquire magazine, "Latins Are Lousy Lovers"; of an apparent heart attack; in New York City...
HOMETOWN is about Hamilton, Ohio. But, as Peter Davis fairly screams early on Hometown is really about America, not just Hamilton Calling on the tradition of anthropological and literary studies of single American towns as microcosms of the national condition--particularly Robert and Helen Lynd's work on Muncie. Indiana and Sherwood Anderson's imagined Winesbury, Ohio--Davis conceived Hometown as the latest of these metaphorical excursions. But Davis is neither anthropologist nor novelist...
Poor Muncie, Ind. A small city in that mythical region called the heartland, it has been probed, inspected and all but dissected for more than half a century, labeled by teams of social scientists as typically American. The husband-and-wife team of Robert and Helen Lynd led off in 1929 with their famous book Middletown: A Study in American Culture, following up eight years later with Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts. A research team of university scholars is about to release the first part of a third look, conducted in the mid-'70s. Still another...