Word: shepherd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shepherd of the flock in tidy, suburban Woodford, just outside Manchester, the slim, silver-haired Rev. Philip St. John (rhymes with Injun) Wilson Ross, Cambridge '26, was irreproachable. On call to his parishioners for religious consolation at any hour, he was also arch and sporting at children's church picnics, full of charm at meetings of the church mothers, and a lively, intelligent man of the world with the businessmen of the local vestry. There were those, of course, whose evil tongues sought mischief in gossip over the frequent calls paid by the Rev. Mr. Ross on Wealthy...
...When I am no longer there, I do not know what will happen to Germany," Chancellor Adenauer once said. Yet the sturdy shepherd of postwar Free Germany has long refused to designate a political heir, because to do so suggests his own withdrawal from the scene. Last week, politically beleaguered, the old (80) Chancellor gave in to the pleadings of his Christian Democratic followers and agreed to install a No. 2 man. The heir: For eign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, 52, who will soon be made Vice Chancellor, will also remain in charge of the Foreign Ministry...
...Roman classics, Gibbon's Decline and Fall. He stayed late only if the class was debating. Other days he went home to his chores. One afternoon in 1930, while Herman was picking turnips, the house caught fire and burned to the ground (with one casualty, a German shepherd dog named Al Smith). Gene, who was spending weekdays in Atlanta as agriculture commissioner and only weekends at home as a father, took advantage of the fire to move the family to Atlanta. Herman entered Druid Hills School, found himself better grounded in his subjects than the city boys...
...loss itself showed only that J.V. coaches Norm Shepherd and Henry Lamar will have to teach the squad more than just how to scrimmage the varsity if it is to win any of its games...
Turbulent, Turgid. As an elaborate gag, Shepherd began booming last month a purely imaginary historical novel-a "turbulent, turgid, tempestuous" composite of "Frank Yerby, Kathleen Windsor and Norman Vincent Peale." The book was first conceived as a hoax to shatter the faith of day people in their own "book lists." Shepherd urged fans to canvass shops for the nonexistent title I, Libertine, ascribed to "nonauthor than" Frederick R. Ewing, "well-remembered for his BBC talks" on 18th century erotica. By noon next day, one Manhattan store had received some 30 orders. The title mysteriously appeared on Boston's list...