Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woof of modern life, Cinemillionaire Charlie Chaplin off the set could apparently out-guile even a Boston textile tycoon. According to a suit filed last week in Manhattan by a widow of a onetime business pal, Charlie was wont to have his royalties deposited at Manhattan's J. P. Morgan & Co., then transferred to a Swiss banker, who funneled the funds to a dummy corporation set up by Chaplin in currency-careless Tangier. Result: two years after Chaplin settled in Switzerland-and while the U.S. Government was vainly trying to collect more than $1,000.000 in back taxes...
...About 30% of marriages involving U.S. Catholics are now mixed, reported Brother Gerald J. Schnepp of St. Mary's University of San Antonio. There is every indication that the percentage will rise. "If we cannot stop the trend, we should at least take steps to decrease the disorganizing effects...
...Archbishop has lost faith in mankind." Many churchmen agreed. "Singularly futile, stupid and un-Christian," snapped Dr. John S. Thomson, moderator of the United Church of Canada. "There is no justification for anyone, even the Archbishop of Canterbury, to put himself in the place of God," said Canon L. J. Collins of St. Paul's Cathedral, and added that he would cease to be a Christian if he thought "that the God revealed in Jesus Christ is callous to the amount of suffering in the world ... It may be in the providence of God that we should blow ourselves...
Another long-established notion got its comeuppance at the same congress. Dr. A. J. E. Cave of London's St. Bartholomew's Hospital told the zoologists that the stooping, bent-kneed, apelike stance of Neanderthal man was a libelous misconstruction. About 1911, said Dr. Cave, French Paleontologist Pierre Marcelin Boule fitted together a Neanderthal skeleton found in France. He did not allow for the fact that the bones belonged to an old Neanderthaler who suffered from arthritis. Recently Dr. Cave himself examined those same bones. With age and arthritis properly allowed for, the Neanderthaler looked better. His face...
...Edgar's proposal to Cathy ("Make me whole again"), Cathy's "dream" aria in which she confesses her love of Heathcliff. Audience reaction was tepid; "I liked the movie better," said one mink-draped woman. But professionals in the audience cheered. Said Metropolitan Opera Board Member Howard J. Hook Jr.: "This puts the Met to shame. How come we let Santa Fe steal a march...