Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judge Marcelino Romany, a solemn, bald, big-nosed little (5 ft. 1 in.) man who had no intention at all of being funny. Romany is known at home as a stern judge and a man of enormous dignity and great political courage. Until last week he was chiefly famous for throwing Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell's cabinet in jail for contempt during a court action...
...Unità took another beating last week from another American, Michael Stern, Rome correspondent for Fawcett Publications (True, True Confessions). Ten months ago, Stern wrote a sensational story for True that two former American OSS men had killed their superior officer, Major William Holohan, in 1944 in Italy, to help Communist partisans (TIME, Aug. 27). L'Unità fired back at Stern's charges against the Reds: Stern is a "false journalist" who is really acting as a spy for the U.S. State Department...
...Reporter Stern slapped a libel suit on L'Unità, and last week he won it. Two L'Unità writers and the paper's assistant director sheepishly told a Rome tribunal that they meant "no reflection on Mr. Stern's professional honor." The court ordered the paper to pay 500,000 lire ($800) in damages, plus 350,000 lire ($560) in costs and fines...
...Kans.) Globe one of the most quoted papers in the nation and wrote Story of a Country Town, a bitter novel about small-town Babbittry. But young Gene Howe never had an easy time of it. He quit high school after two months, was often at odds with his stern father who once wrote in the Globe: "Three Atchison young men disgraced themselves . . . Saturday. The publisher's son was the drunkest of the bunch." Even when Gene Howe took a job on the family's paper, his father agreed he was an "impossible" newspaperman, summarily fired him. After...
...rigidity of such customs as the fast of Ramadan has hindered the Islamic nations in adjusting themselves to a changing modern world. But the stern faith that goes with them keeps the Moslems among the world's most spiritually secure people. As a Beirut professor explained: "Ramadan is a time of reexamination. Americans might say it is a time to 'pull up your socks' and learn to stand up to difficulty ... It is the time a Moslem faces up to himself...