Word: monica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young man about models (in 1947 he started his own agency), went in seriously for the arts. He filed formal application with the Los Angeles City Zoning Commission to build and endow a 20-building, $150,000-a-year "School for Genius" on 41 acres in the nearby Santa Monica mountains. The prospective student body: recent university graduates in the fields of writing, painting, sculpture and music...
...give his idea a trial, Parton quit TIME last year, organized the Los Angeles Independent Publishing Co., raised a stake from 55 investors,* and bought a chain of seven twice-a-week giveaways in the rich Santa Monica Bay area of Los Angeles. Then he hired some high-priced talent, including ex-Hearstling Merrill Lord as general manager and the Los Angeles News's Charles Judson as executive editor, to help turn his giveaways (circ. 42,000) into good newspapers...
Questions I would like answered: 1) Will Phoenix have as much respect for "Mister" McLoughlin as it did for "Father" McLoughlin? 2) Will St. Monica's Hospital (which sounds Catholic enough) favor the idea of having an "ex-priest" on its board of directors...
...Answers as of last week: 1) Phoenicians still found it simplest to call him "Father McLoughlin"; 2) the board of nondenominational St. Monica's had voted unanimously to keep him as superintendent...
...have insisted that I give up the Superintendency of St. Monica's Hospital, the Presidency of its Board of Directors, and finally that I prepare to leave Phoenix. This, you insist, I must do if I am to remain in good standing as a Priest of the Catholic Church and a member of the Franciscan Order. As a reason for your demand you have contended that my activities are too material in nature and do not conform to the spiritual duties of the priesthood...