Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eloquent, friendly warning from the great theologist, Cardinal Bellarmin. It is on this occasion that Harsanyi has him make (gaily) his famous-probably apocryphal -remark: "Eppur si muove" ("Nevertheless it moves"). The heat was not really turned on until Galileo was 69, when Pope Urban VIII in a personal pet had the sick old man scared into recantation...
...involved . . ." Instead, he told Harvard in a few simple words that his days of service here are nearing their end. Harvard likes the Colonel, likes the way he has quietly gone about creating Harvard legends--from his finagling with the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts, to the installment of his pet fountains in the Yard. Last night Harvard did its bit in recognition of these and other achievements of the Colonel. But a dinner is not sufficient. No, there is one final gesture that we must make, and it is little enough. The Crimson herewith nominates Charles R. Apted...
Died. One of the three pet canaries (all pure yellow without mark of any other color) of Pope Pius XII; in Vatican City. While the Pope lunches, as according to court etiquette he must alone, he used to let them out of their cage to fly around...
...Congo." He has publicized such hits as The Front Page, Coquette, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Sailor Beware!, The Children's Hour. Says he from experience: "I have yet to find an actor, producer or stagehand who did not like to see his name in print." Among producers, his pet annoyance is the Shuberts. No great admirer of Billy Rose, he admits that Rose is a pressagent's Dream Boy because "he scorns dignity in favor of delirium." His favorite producer is megalomaniac Jed Harris because Harris is cyclonic, unpredictable. "All female stars," adds Maney, "have one thing in common...