Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic best known to most U.S. citizens is Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen. His annual broadcasts of Lenten sermons have long been among the most popular on the air, one of his books, Peace of Soul, was a notable bestseller in 1949, and the many conversions over which he has presided have included such well-known people as Columnist Heywood Broun, Communist Louis Budenz, Industrialist Henry Ford II and Author Clare Boothe Luce...
...merciless novel about the rise of a thoroughgoing heel in Manhattan's garment center. In the film, the heel has been transformed into a hellcat (Susan Hayward), still greedy and pushy, but with as much talent as guile, a conscience to catch up with her treacheries, and the sheen of Fifth Avenue instead of the flashiness of Seventh...
...When the Sheen story came in over the wire last week, Editor John G. Green of the Portsmouth (Ohio) Times (circ. 25,176) did as suggested; he took out his pencil and went through his previous day's paper. In the 1,430 inches of news, headlines and pictures, he found only 149 inches devoted to crime or violence. Even this included stories (e.g., the Korean war, the Kefauver investigation) which Editor Green thought "might be considered by many readers as being moral, rather than immoral." In the non-crime news, he counted stories about penicillin, a union convention...
Next day, the Kansas City Star (circ. 364,315), which also ran the Sheen interview, did a similar job of checking up. It counted 1,535 inches of news, found only 157 inches devoted to crime and violence...
Commented the Times: "We agree with Msgr. Sheen's statement that 'there is great goodness in the world,' but the record seems to refute his assertion that it is 'unsung and unheralded...