Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week he got away by reading a book on 2nd Century Rome. "It's fascinating," he said. "Did you know that the traffic was so bad in Rome that they had to make all deliveries at night to relieve the congestion...
Incubator Baby. As mayor, Bill O'Dwyer governs more people than live in many a sovereign nation. New York is still a melting pot. It has more Irish (500,000) than Dublin, more Jews (2,000,000) than Palestine, almost as many Italians (1,095,000) as Rome. It has 412,000 Poles, 57,000 Czechs, 54,000 Norwegians, 53,000 Greeks. Half a million Negroes are jammed into New York, alongside almost a quarter-million Puerto Ricans. Mayor O'Dwyer can never be free of the fear of a bloody riot in Harlem. He has other enormous...
...Rome last week, Pope Pius XII reminded the International College of Surgeons that their moral duty is to spare unborn infants even at the risk of their mothers' lives. Surgeons, he said, should not heed "the understandable anguish of husbandly love" when faced with such a choice. "God alone is Lord of life...
...shares with his countryman Etienne Gilson the place of honor among living Roman Catholic philosophers. Since 1945 Maritain has served as France's ambassador to the Vatican, giving no official dinners, roaming through other people's parties lost in thought, and devoting most of his time to Rome's Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Maritain is largely responsible for the upsurge of interest in the philosophic system of the 13th Century's "Angelic Doctor." Last week Princeton University appointed Maritain professor of philosophy...
Died. George F. ("Buzz") Beurling, 26, Canada's leading wartime ace (28 Axis planes in 14 fighting days at the defense of Malta), and peacetime flying mercenary; in a plane crash at Urbe airfield, Rome, while en route to fly in Palestine. He won his discharge shortly after D-day in 1944 (said the R.C.A.F.: "Beurling has already done his part. . ."). He found peacetime bush-piloting, stunt flying and insurance selling too tame ("I guess I'll have to go and find another war"), bargained with both Arabs and Jews before taking Haganah's offer...