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...upon God," he said when he assumed his office. "I shall work as if everything depended on me." And so seriously did he take his vow - so firmly did he place his mark on American Catholicism - that when he died of a stroke in Manhattan last week, Francis Cardinal Spellman, 78, was without question the most influential cleric...
Born in Whitman, Mass., where his father ran a grocery, Spellman gave no early hint of religious vocation. He attended public elementary and high schools, helped in his father's store, worked one summer as a conductor on the local trolley line. At New York's Jesuit-run Fordham University he was a conscientious but hardly brilliant student, a debater, and an earnest poet. Only on the eve of graduation did he decide to enter the priesthood. Ordained in 1916, he went to Rome as translator for a Boston bishop in 1925, so impressing Pope Pius XI that...
...that was to serve him so well in New York, the young priest brought American publicity techniques to the Vatican, introducing such novelties as the mimeographed handout and the background news conference. The first voice heard on Vatican Radio in 1931 was the Pope's; the second was Spellman...
...step further and make it look ridiculous. On Firing Line, TV Star Robert Vaughn started naming the people he thought had conspired to commit the U.S. to the defense of Ngo Dinh Diem's regime in South Viet Nam. "Joseph Buttinger, General Edward Lansdale, Wesley Fishel, Cardinal Spellman . ." Buckley broke in: "And the Holy Ghost?" With these tactics, Buckley often reduces his adversaries to nonverbal floundering. Novelist Nelson Algren simply gave up talking and started singing. "I want to turn you on, Bill," said Timothy Leary. "I want to get you to drop...
...bearing the legend "Soul Brother"-a sign of Negro ownership. In one case, each letter of "soul" was stitched with bullets. Often, when snipers fired from rooftops or windows, lawmen responded by riddling the entire building with withering fusillades, despite commands to "know your target before firing." Mrs. Eloise Spellman, 41, mother of eleven, died when she stood up from her living room couch just as a police barrage began...