Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain that this will not be the last time we shall be reading about Superintendent Gross. He is headed upward. He has successfully reinvigorated the Pittsburgh school system and is on his way toward renovating the New York school system-a most difficult task. But he will overcome ... A real possibility for the future: Calvin Gross, U.S. Commissioner of Education...
...parents brought him to the U.S. from Rumania in 1897, Sam Leibowitz went to Cornell Law School and became a dramatically successful criminal lawyer. In the 1920s and '30s, his roster of clients included some of the country's most notorious hoods-Al Capone, Kid Twist Reles, Pittsburgh Phil Strauss. He fought for the Mad Dog Killer and the Bread Knife Murderess, and of more than 100 defendants charged with first-degree murder, Sam saved all but one from the electric chair. The loser made the unforgivable error of leaving his fingerprints behind...
...full and supreme power" over the church. The vote did not challenge papal supremacy, but it did indicate that the council will eventually provide Catholic bishops with more rights and authority than they now have-and it marked the first sign of real progress since the session began. Said Pittsburgh's Bishop John Wright: "This marks the turning point of the council...
Cosmopolitan Clangor. Stella's first published drawings, called Americans in the Rough, appeared in 1905. They were so compelling that in 1908 a magazine sent him to Pittsburgh steel mills and West Virginia coal pits to capture the look of common laborers, immigrants like himself. He did it with the skill of Renaissance masters: character surges from every pore of sweat-stained faces, submerged in subtle eddies of pencil and charcoal. In 1909 Stella returned to Italy, where he was born, and soon met the bellicose futurists. He absorbed their lessons of the violent involvement of forms and devotion...
Died. Adolphe Menjou, 73, Hollywood's type-cast boulevardier and self-styled arbiter of sartorial elegance, the Pittsburgh-born son of an immigrant hotel manager, who became king of the silver screen's lounge lizards with A Woman of Paris in 1923, at his peak earned $200,000 a year and spent a good chunk of it replenishing a 2,000-item wardrobe (plum bowlers, mauve gloves, light grey dinner clothes), later turned to meatier roles, beginning as the city editor of The Front Page (1930) and ending as the unkempt eccentric of Pollyanna (1960), yet forever maintained...