Word: pittsburgher
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Feeding Grimaces. Kelly deplores the common U.S. image of the dancer as a mincing she-man. When he first began dancing in nightclubs in the Pittsburgh area, ringside drunks would snigger "Hello, honey." One night he slugged one of the loudmouths and hotfooted it to Manhattan. He prepped as a Broadway chorus boy, "feeding grimaces to Mary Martin" in 1937, three years later won the lead in Pal Joey and a one-way ticket to Hollywood...
Nevertheless, Sengstacke is so confident of the future that last October he bought the eight ailing Pittsburgh Courier weeklies. This fall, he plans to make the local reporting of each of his papers available to all the others and rely much less on the wire services...
Except for such compelling reasons as scandal, heresy or outright incompetence, a Roman Catholic bishop is almost never separated from his see. For the past seven months, however, the Most Rev. Nicholas T. Elko, Ruthenian-rite bishop of Pittsburgh, has been in Rome, barred by his church superiors from returning to his diocese. The case of Bishop Elko, who describes his situation as "exile," casts fascinating light on Catholicism's current internal stresses-and on the problems of its little-known Eastern-rite churches...
Bricks & Mortar. One of two Ruthenian bishops in the U.S., Elko for twelve years has been the spiritual leader of 220,000 souls in 120 scattered parishes from Pittsburgh to Alaska. The first American-born priest ever to become a Ruthenian prelate, Elko was in many respects a typical U.S. bishop: a blunt, tough, brick-and-mortar administrator who built 93 new churches and schools for his diocese. Nonetheless, his no-nonsense ways managed to offend both liberals and conservatives in his far-flung...
...defense, Elko insists that he has done nothing that was not in conformity with the spirit of the Second Vatican Council and the sense of papal directives. Distressed over the dissension in his diocese, he hopes eventually to return to Pittsburgh. But the tone of a recent letter to a friend is that of a prisoner with no expectation of immediate parole. "Excuse the typing," he wrote. "In the past, I have had the good fortune to have others do my typing. Now, however, in this exile I have become accustomed to doing things as best I can alone under...