Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Husky, merry-eyed Major Stephen T. Mayer, chaplain of the U.S. Military Air Transport Service, was probably the only Roman Catholic priest in the world to say two Masses at midnight on Christmas Eve. They took place at the same hour on the same day 1,800 miles apart-on opposite sides of the international date line...
Such chronological high jinks is old stuff to Chaplain Mayer; in a MATS transport plane he hops the date line between two of his stations-Kwajalein Atoll and Johnston Island-often enough to squeeze five to eight Sundays into each month. On Christmas, he was almost as busy as Santa Claus. At Kwajalein, he said Masses at midnight, 9 a.m. and noon on Dec. 25, left at 2:20 p.m. to arrive at Johnston Island at 11:30 the night before, in time to start the cycle over again...
...Albert Mayer, a New York architect, will discuss defense aspects of new towns and current proposals for decentralization of Washington...
Bell, Book and Candle (by John van Druten; produced by Irene Mayer Selznick) comes up with a bright comedy idea and, for perhaps better than half the evening, with a bright comedy. Playwright van Druten has assumed not only that there are modern-day witches but that they can be modish and highly efficient, and that one of them is attractive enough to ensnare a bright Manhattan publisher. When the publisher discovers she is a witch, he walks out on her-only for her to discover she is now a woman. Hoist on her own broomstick, she has fallen...
...hero of Fry's romantic comedy is a Thomas Mendip, played by John Gielgud. Mendip, a discharged soldier of 15th century England, is fed up with the stupidity of mankind and the dreariness of existence. he barges into the home of the Mayer of Cool Clary one April afternoon, and asks to be hanged. This unprecedented request is ignored by the mayor, whose credo throughout the entire play is "everything will be taken case of at the proper time...