Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seminary's first students lived in cold stone cells with no heat, slept on corn-husk mattresses, fought malaria and fleas. But life was brightened by their robes (all of Rome's foreign seminarians wear robes with national markings). The Irish-Americans who helped found the college considered green, but the final choice was black cassocks with red buttons and sash and blue facings which, together with a white Roman collar, added up to the U.S. colors (the first class even had a brass star on each shoe strap...
Recently the Committee received from the estate of the late Albert Stone, Jr., a $17 million inheritance which nearly doubles its funds now available for distribution...
...produce from the bestseller about his life, Demara complained that he got only $4,000 ("I've been had"), and that Tony Curtis was completely miscast in the hero's role. Hollywood, which has always instinctively taken impostors to its heart, loved Demara's bluster. Even stone-faced assistant directors had to smile when the world's most successful character actor thundered: "I just don't enjoy acting; it is too artificial...
...Cole's salary and bonus approach $300,000. He likes to spend it, lives in a palatial $250,000 stone-and-glass lakeside house, dresses in hand-needled $175 suits that have fancy cuffs on the sleeves. With Wife Esther, Son David, 22 (an engineering student at Michigan), and Daughter Martha, 18 (a freshman at Michigan State), he shares three boats, four Chevies (one for each member of the family) and five TV-sets (two in color), which Cole watches "only to see if I can sharpen up the Chevy commercials...
...filibuster has ended." So said United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald last week as he and his aides broke off Manhattan negotiations with management on the eleven-week-old steel strike, left for Pittsburgh. Said McDonald: "The industry has not offered one cent. You cannot bargain with a stone wall...