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...nice of you to come," the midget said to the cardinal. Terence Cardinal Cooke, the only American member of a commission created by Pope Paul VI for "people on the move," was celebrating his first Mass for the Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey circus in Madison Square Garden. "How blessed you are," Cooke said to the assembled animal trainers, jugglers, clowns and workmen, "to spend your lives dedicated to a profession that makes people smile...
...exactly During a recent desperate search for additional financing (TIME, April 2), Charney and his partner John Veronis had approached a number of large publishing and communications corporations. "What we needed," says Charney, "was a corporate shield to survive. We needed someone to take us on so that Madison Avenue would say, 'O.K., here's an institution, here's stability...
Such bad-mouthing would have been superfluous; advertisers had their own negative ideas. The Charney-Veronis brashness aroused much resentment on Madison Avenue. "The advertising fraternity wanted them to fail," says a New York adman. "Above all, there were a lot of people who thought those two guys did not belong in the magazine business and ought to get out of it." Admits Charney: "Madison Avenue and potential backers had a hard time realizing what Saturday Review was, or should...
...Boston Celtics overcame injuries, a sparkling performance by Walt Frazier, and New York's Madison Square Garden crowd to score an upset 110-100 victory over the New York Knicks last night to even their play-off series at three games apiece...
Other rape squads use more conventional preventive measures. The Women's Coalition for Rape Prevention in Madison, Wis., has set up a "women's transit authority" to provide, for a 250 donation, late-night transportation for lone women. Most groups run educational campaigns advising women about ways of discouraging attack. The Los Angeles squad, noting that karate takes years to master, advocates screaming as a possible alternative. Sandy Pinches of the East Lansing center wholeheartedly advocates force: "A karate chop to the Adam's apple can kill a guy. Or you can stomp down with your heels...