Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yawns & Galluses. Through the fast-moving telecamera, the balloting, the demonstrations, the tub-thumping speeches and sweating caucuses looked bigger and more exciting than they actually were. It was the delegates who gave the convention most of its strawberry festival flavor -a homy mixture of galluses, shirtsleeves, palmetto fans, odd hats and lax faces. Most televiewers lost the thread of Senator Wherry's address, because of the woman in the background who blandly read a newspaper. Other strikingly human glimpses: a girl delegate smothering a yawn behind her compact during a dull speech; the grave face of a Puerto...
From the Vatican last month came a strongly worded warning to Roman Catholics: they must not participate in religious conferences, prayers or worship with non-Catholics, without special permission from Rome. As the Protestant world prepared for this summer's great conference of 140-odd church groups in Amsterdam,* the repercussions still rumbled...
...spiritual leader of Mexico's million-odd Evangelistas, Bishop David Ruesga of the Protestant Church of God is in a tough spot. In Roman Catholic Mexico the members of his sect, who are most numerous in rural areas, are generally treated as outcasts. Their revivalistic meetings are sometimes stoned. Small boys ring Evangelista doorbells, then run, or paint Viva Cristo Rey (Long Live Christ the King) on Evangelista walls. Since President Manuel Avila Camacho announced in 1940 that he was a "believer," and thus took the government heat off the Roman Catholic church, anti-Protestant persecution of the proselyting...
...explorers found in Tahiti an odd, crow-sized bird with a flute-like cry. It was named the bristle-thighed curlew,* Numenius tahitiensis...
Helen Kenyan always managed to keep busy. At school in Brooklyn, where she was born 60-odd years ago, she had to work hard to keep up with her three bright brothers. At Vassar she was well known for her prowess as center halfback on the hockey team. She was elected alumnae president of her college, and in 1929 she became first woman chairman of Vassar's board of trustees...