Word: reigns
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...12th century error inserted a nonexistent John XV into the reign of John XIV (983-984). This error was compounded by 1) the inclusion of Antipope John XVI (997-998) in the legitimate succession, and 2) the fact that no John XV ever existed. According to these calculations, the present Pope John XXIII is really John...
Died. Eugene Dennis, 56, who rose high in the U.S. Communist Party hierarchy in the "our gallant Ally" afterglow of World War II, became general secretary in 1945, and during his twelve-year reign, saw party membership shrivel from a peak of 80,000 to fewer than 20,000 under the heat generated by the cold war; of cancer; in New York City. Born Francis X. Waldron Jr. of a middle-class Seattle family, Dennis joined the party as a youthful instructor, served as a Red agent in Europe, China and South Africa, became the leader of U.S. Communists after...
...citizen wrote memoirs much as his 20th century descendant writes income tax returns-as a matter of course, and with considerable imagination. Author Mossiker has made clever use of these circumstances in retelling the story of the famed diamond necklace theft that threw France into an uproar during the reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The reader is invited to discover the truth of the affair-something never established beyond doubt-from a crosscutting of contradictory memoirs and trial briefs, most of them entertainingly libelous. The puzzle is a good one, although the passages selected by the author...
...second landmark in Archbishop Fisher's reign is his good-will trip to the orthodox churches of the Middle East and his precedent-shattering visit to the Pope (TIME, Dec. 12). "I pray for an increase in unity of spirit," he had told the congregation of the Anglican Cathedral at Jerusalem, "in the hope that it will pave the way to an even more formal canonical union, which should be the final goal...
Died. Frank W. Taylor, 73, tough, crusading newsman who during a brilliant 27-year reign as managing editor of the old St. Louis Star-Times more than quintupled his paper's circulation, won the opposition Post-Dispatch's accolade as its professional "Public Enemy No. 1"; of a stroke; in Green...