Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of the Depression . . . And I remember well the day when the author of this book, my son James, said to me pathetically at lunch: 'If I paid five cents extra, Mother, could I have a glass of milk?' And there was the time [the late aviatrix] Amelia Earhart, who was staying with us on a brief visit, said she was hungry and could get nothing to eat in the late evening. This was because she did not know how to go about it. And my son John found the icebox locked at night and was outraged...
Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart junketed into the Dominican Republic, paid "great tribute" to Dictator Rafael Trujillo for his "fight against Communism." Then he told Ciudad Trujillo businessmen about an experience of his as a freshman Senator. Tangling jovially with the late Alben Berkley in a private joust, Capehart twitted the then Democratic Senator from Kentucky: "If it hadn't been for the Ohio River, there wouldn't be any Kentucky. It would all have been Indiana." Confidentially responded future Veep Barkley: "Yes, and if that were true, I would have been the Senator...
...Americans had been virtually sure to get a red hat: Archbishop Albert Gregory Meyer, 56, appointed last September to succeed Chicago's late Samuel Cardinal Stritch as head of the largest Catholic archdiocese in the U.S. (1,942,000 members). Shy, scholarly Archbishop Meyer, son of a Milwaukee grocer, is known as a brilliant administrator and a cautious interviewee-on his appointment to Chicago he refused to say whether he would transfer his allegiance from the Milwaukee Braves to the Chicago Cubs. Met by a crowd of newsmen and clerics at a Chicago airport last week, as he returned...
...REVEREND AUGUSTIN BEA, 78, a German-born Jesuit scholar and one of the few men to whom a Pope has knelt; for more than 20 years he was the confessor of the late Pope Pius XII. Pope Pius wanted to make him a cardinal in 1946, but Jesuit General Janssens urged the Pope not to, because some Vatican veterans felt that Jesuits had been overly favored (Pius XI had created two Jesuit cardinals, had turned over to the Jesuits both the Vatican radio and the observatory at Castel Gandolfo; Pius XII had two Jesuit private secretaries...
...there, late last month, surgeons finished the job of correcting nature's errors. They freed Phillip's windpipe from a useless connection with his stomach, made a continuous passage from mouth, through throat and gullet, to stomach. After intravenous feeding during convalescence (and almost three years of being fed liquids through a tube), Phillip Culpepper demanded an egg. Last week he got it-fried, "over easy." Far from wealthy (her husband is a journeyman plumber), Mrs. Culpepper had gambled $1,000 in legal expenses and $2,000 in medical bills to give the boy a chance for normal...