Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finished what he was saying, and then was helped from the pulpit. Though he recuperated, he never let up, frequently ended services by saying: "If I am still here, I'll be with you next week." Once he asked an audience: "Are you scarred of death? I'm not. I'm looking for-r-ward to it-I can hardly wait." Last week, at 46, death came swiftly to Peter Marshall. Two days later, the last prayer he had written for the Senate was read aloud. ". . . Where we cannot convince, let us be willing to persuade...
...longer. Last week the 20 years were about up, and the Chief announced that in June he would retire; he wanted to spend the next years of his life in a parish of his own. "The Episcopal Church has about 1,000 vacancies," says he, "I'm not much worried about getting a place...
...Acres of Flesh. As This Week was a supplement in such family journals as the New York Herald Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer and 22 others, Nichols thought it would pay "to be decent." Said he: "I'm neither pious nor preachy but my first principle is success and [decency] has paid off in success. You can bore a mass audience to death with acres of flesh. Why did burlesque...
Recently, worried about an article on sex delinquency, he submitted it to the 24 papers in advance. They vetoed the treatment; Nichols had it rewritten. Says he: "I'm not a writer, not a lit'ry fellow. I like to show a profit...
...invitation tournament. At Long Beach the week after, he won again. On the 18th green he sank an 11-ft. putt ("It seemed like the longest I ever made") to tie Jimmy Demaret; next day, in the playoff, Hogan won by two strokes. Said he: "I guess I'm making myself unpopular...