Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acidulous prime, Gossipmonger Walter Winchell stood second to no columnist for journalistic terseness, ferocity and cheek. A chronic vendettist, he repeatedly bared his teeth and his quill in Winchell feuds: against Singer Josephine Baker ("pro-Fascist, a troublemaker"). the Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (they quarreled over a pack of cigarettes), Ed Sullivan (''style pirate"), the New York Post ("pinko-stinko sheet"), the "fourth estate" ("All those columnists rapping me-where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket"), and everybody ("Look. I want to get back at a lot of people...
...James Gordon Bennet Prize went to Lee B. McTurnan '59 for his thesis "The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association: A Study in Group Politics;" the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize to Guido G. Goldwin '59 for "Zionism under Soviet Rule;" and the Eric Firth Prize to Isaac Kramnick '59 for "William Godwin: The Enlightenment and Political Philosophy...
...People in Love." How the son of General Sherman, a nondenominational Protestant who believed in "truth," came to be a Jesuit spellbinder is told in this fascinating biography by Joseph T. Durkin, himself a Jesuit and professor of American history at Georgetown University. Tom Sherman, born in 1856, was brought up in St. Louis and Washington amid his father's legend, but his Catholic mother, Ellen Ewing Sherman, probably had the greater influence. Tom went to Yale, studied law at St. Louis' Washington University, then abruptly informed his father that he was about to enter the Jesuit novitiate...
...Will Obey." After his father's death in 1891, he seemed to rededicate himself, in a sense, to the Sherman tradition. He attended Army of the Tennessee reunions, took such tough stands on national issues -"Socialism asks us to vote for the dishonor of our mothers"; "The man who shoots an anarchist on sight is a public benefactor"-that his Jesuit superiors pulled him off speaking tours. In 1898 he volunteered for duty as an Army chaplain, served in Puerto Rico...
Seventeen years later, incapacitated in hermitlike seclusion in Santa Barbara, four years before his death, he had just enough of the Sherman combativeness to fight and win a last battle for a $50-a-month Army pension that was his due for service in the War of 1898. Father Tom's entry on his pension application blank for nearest relative to be notified in case of death: his dead father, General William Tecumseh Sherman...