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...private life the Cardinal was a witty, charming and humane man. During World War II he personally sheltered a number of Jews. But he will be remembered for his official acts to ward off the influence of the modern world, which he felt threatened piety and the church, and which he described as "prey to an ardent rage for novelties." Ottaviani once said: "There is only one principle which counts. The church as service. And to serve it means to be faithful to its laws. Like a blind man. Like the blind...
...there is no heaven but the people/ Let the people of the world/ shake off their chains/ and sing." To move from a vaudeville artiste slipping out of handcuffs to this kind of cosmic hymn is a long leap-too long. Except for some passing swipes at the police, war and poverty, Mitchell and Schat never specify the nature of the people's chains. Nor do they pause to consider that absolute freedom can itself be a kind of bondage...
Despite his place in the family dynasty, Otis Chandler learned the business from the bottom up. After he returned from the Korean War, his hard-driving mother, Buff Chandler, now 78 and still the grande dame of the Los Angeles cultural establishment, gave him one weekend off, then started him on a seven-year grind that took him from the mail room to the city room. Chandler is quick to deny any implication that he is his mother's masterpiece: "Her influence on the paper since I've been publisher has not been significant...
...themes sometimes got lost in the variations. During World War II, Esquire concentrated on sports, pinups and adventure fiction; Gingrich, who had left the magazine, had to be invited back to give it intellectual tone again. At this point Hugh Hefner, a circulation promotion writer at Esquire decided to start a magazine of his own, freely borrowing Esquire's formula while gambling that the courts might now be more lenient about nudity. Instead of Esky the bug-eyed lecher as a trademark, Hefner created the Bunny. Facing Playboy's runaway success but unwilling to become a "skin book...
...took a fair amount of brass and something like genius to transcend these limitations. Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz and Mickey Rooney in Boys' Town did it by the sheer force of their gift. But to ward the close of World War II, styles changed...