Word: meyers
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...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...
...Verlaine. As Author Ryan spells out in detail, the Germans knew almost to the hour when D-day was coming and fluffed their unparalleled opportunity to mangle the invasion forces. As early as January 1944, wily Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, then chief of German intelligence, had briefed Lieut. Colonel Hellmuth Meyer, intelligence officer and chief of a radio-monitoring unit with the Pas-de-Calais-based Fifteenth Army, on the code message with which the Allies would alert the European underground for the invasion. It consisted of the first two lines of the poem Chanson d'Automne, by the 19th...
Bulldog defensive play, however, does not match the Elis' offensive standard. Fullbacks Phil Meyer and Mal Black are big but slow, and alternating goalies Charlie Grigg and Andy Block have shown a tendency to wilt under pressure. The Elis use a three-back defense, with the center half functioning as a third fullback, to bolster their protection...
...Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's attempt to establish a durable world economic policy based on free trade and mutual self-help (TIME, Nov. 9). But there was no clear articulation of purpose. "Our leaders have not been able to give us a sense of direction," said Sylvan Meyer, editor of the Gainesville (Ga.) Times. "They've told us we have to sacrifice luxuries to carry out our job in the world. We're willing. But nobody tells us what to sacrifice and nobody tells us the purpose...
Arthur Smithies, Chairman of the Department, met frequently this summer and again this fall with a Department Committee on Undergraduate Education appointed last spring. Headed by Professor Dunlop, members of the group are Professors Chamberlain, Duesenberry, and Meyer, Assistant Professors Gill and Lefeber, and instructors Baer and Berman...