Word: rachel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the ablest religious editor of any U. S. newspaper is Rachel Kollock McDowell of the New York Times. A plump, energetic spinster in her 50's, Miss McDowell loves her work. She regularly has 25 reporters assigned to cover Sunday sermons, bombards the city desk with memoranda urging additional coverage of religious events. Armed with a capacious handbag she personally reports important gatherings like the Presbyterian General Assembly-dear to her heart because she is devoutly of that faith. Indomitable Miss McDowell hates swearing, sends out a memorandum every New Year's Eve reminding the staff...
This summer Rachel McDowell got a three-weeks' vacation instead of her usual two. She resolved to go to Italy "to kneel before the Sovereign Pontiff," Pope Pius XI. From one of her most useful Manhattan contacts, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Miss McDowell begged a letter smoothing the way. She did not neglect to pray, both before and afterward, at the high altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral. How Presbyterian McDowell's prayers were answered she told last week in an account of her trip in the Catholic News. Excerpts...
Eventually reaching Rome, Rachel McDowell was all atwitter with misgivings. "At home I am used to telephones and telegrams and-well, getting what I start out to get. . . . But now . . . I did not know the language, the Vatican etiquette. I was just a little nobody wanting to see the one supreme figure in Christendom. Yes, it was a lesson in humility. Here was about the only place in the world where being religious news editor of what is considered one of the world's greatest newspapers did not count...
...tucked safely away at the bottom of the earth. Explorers of Antarctica may follow the trail of grateful Admiral Byrd to Adolph Ochs Glacier, and from there survey the eminence of Mount Iphigene some 150 mi. from Arthur Sulzberger Bay. Even the four Sulzberger children, Marian, 16, Ruth Rachel, 14, Judith ("Judy"), 11, and Arthur ("Punch"), 9, were not forgotten. The first two letters of their names are immortalized in Mount Marujupu...
...stuffed shirts are the Royal Commissioners who include Sir Philip ("Now It Can Be Told") Gibbs, humanitarian Editor J. Alfred Spender and antiopium crusading Dame Rachel Crowdy. But British linen is simply not washed amid cascades of abuse...