Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to the Old Trade. As a novice in his order, Fray José Francisco de Guadalupe had been startled to learn the extent of the chronic shortage of clergy in Roman Catholic South America; he found that on the continent there were areas half as large as Spain without a priest, some 40,000 parishes without pastors. His decision was to go back as a priest to the crowds and microphones he had given up. Since then he has carried his recruiting and fund-raising campaign into Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and Argentina...
...King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Alexandra; Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate to the U.N., and Mrs. Austin, wearing a notably fancy mask which partygoers took to be a huge butterfly whipped up by a famous designer. She finally disclosed that she had made it herself out of some old tulle and brilliants she "found around the house" and it "represented absolutely nothing...
When Frank Waldrop, editor of the Washington Times-Herald, came home for dinner one evening last fortnight, his ten-year-old son Andrew had exciting news: "Harry Hopkins was a spy!" The boy had been listening to Fulton Lewis Jr.'s radio interview with ex-Major G. Racey Jordan and, as Waldrop said afterward, "That was his young way of summing it up." Waldrop's own way of summing it up for his readers was to reprint verbatim the broadcast of Lewis, who is not celebrated for his accuracy. Waldrop made no effort to determine whether...
...Washington would have disclosed that Racey Jordan had been trying to peddle his story for nearly a month, and reputable news organizations had turned it down because it was contradictory and full of holes. As an excuse for being taken in, some news editors fell back on the old alibi that they were merely being "objective" and printing the day's news without taking any sides. Actually, such "objectivity" meant that the shrieking headlines and deadpan stories gave the readers few or no clues for getting at the heart of the matter, i.e., that they were based on entirely...
Edmund Davie Fulton, Tory member of Canada's Parliament from Kamloops, B.C., had never read a crime comic until some of his worried constituents sent him a batch two years ago. Shocked by the gory yarns, 33-year-old Tory Fulton, onetime Rhodes scholar and wartime infantry officer in Italy, began a crusade. He thundered for Parliament to outlaw such comics, most of which are published in Toronto from mats shipped in by U.S. publishers...