Word: ignatius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain one day ten centuries ago. First a church, then a monastery was built near the peak in her honor. The shrine became a military strongpoint in the struggle between Catalonian Christians and Moors; the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V prayed before the Black Virgin many times, and Saint Ignatius Loyola found his vocation in her presence. Today, she is the legendary protector of all Catalonia, and every devout Catalonian makes a pilgrimage to her shrine at least once in life...
...next week Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee will be ready with a show: "Singing, dancing and lots of chitchat." And aging (59) Alex King, though his health is precarious, shows no signs of running down. "I'm under constant sedation for high blood pressure," says he. "Gandhi and St. Ignatius Loyola had high blood pressure too, and we all started with sinful lives. I'm preparing for sainthood...
...assembled in the Grand Hall of the Patriarchate-archbishops in long beards and flowing black robes, city dwellers from Beirut and Damascus in Western suits and tarbooshes, Christians from the Hauran Desert in Arab headdresses. Each delegate was allowed three nominations. In the balloting, 42 votes went to Archbishop Ignatius Hraike, a stern Arab nationalist from Hama, Syria, 32 votes went to 73-year-old Archbishop Theodosios Abu Rajaili of Tripoli, oldest of the archbishops. Tied for third place were pro-Soviet Candidate Ghea and young Archbishop Elias Moawad of Aleppo, reputedly the most anti-Communist...
Caught in the eavesdropping act: Jack Anderson, a legman for Newspeeper Columnist Drew Pearson, and Baron (name, not title) Ignatius Shacklette, chief investigator for the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight and a veteran congressional shamus. Next day the House subcommittee fired Shacklette (but Pearson kept Anderson on, saying: "I need him"). Then, the Goldfine entourage, hastened by a belated report from Goldfine's secretary, Mildred Paperman, that her room had been rifled of important documents, moved out of the Sheraton-Carlton amid much tub-thumping and hoopla, took up new quarters across K Street in 19 rooms...
Heir-Tight. In Omaha, Ignatius Lutgen, 63, separated from his wife a year after their 1929 marriage, finally sought and got an annulment, explained: "I didn't want her to get my social security...