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...seemed somehow appropriate that on the day before the Seattle fair opened, the one familiar symbol of another great fair-indeed of another great era-should say goodbye. Dead last week of a stroke at 75 was Grover Michael Aloysius Augustine Whalen, president of the 1939 New York World's Fair, chief greeter of the world's celebrities who came to New York during a pulsating quarter-century, inventor of the ticker-tape parade-the Host of New York...
...participate in more than one fair in a single country within a ten-year period. B.I.E.'s blessing has already been bestowed upon Seattle's Century 21 Exposition, which opens in April, a ruling that automatically leaves New York without official representation from European governments. But Grover Whalen, in 1939, faced limited B.I.E. participation, still ended up with some handsome European pavilions. Says Moses: "We don't take this B.I.E. business very seriously. You won't find anybody around here worrying about...
...Were the YMCA to label itself the Young Men's Protestant Association, it might be more candid," wrote William J. Whalen, English professor at Indiana's Purdue University and student of Roman Catholic youth. "Forty years ago. the Holy Office warned Catholics against joining or supporting the YMCA, 'an organization which instills indifference and apostasy . . . ' Books on sex and marriage published by the Association Press, the Y's publishing arm, present views on masturbation, premarital intercourse, sterilization, divorce and birth control at obvious variance with Catholic principles." The books' willingness to discuss the pros...
Other foursquare Roman Catholic periodicals have warned the faithful against the Protestantism that the Y is supposed to offer along with its weight-reducing classes and such, but the days are long gone when the London-founded, 117-year-old Y was an evangelical organization that excluded what Whalen called "Romanists, Jews and infidels." Few Catholics have paid heed to theological lint-picking over what is now virtually a community organization. In Dallas, however, the Times-Herald last week front-paged the Sunday Visitor article and promptly blew up a storm. "Active membership in the Y is closed to Catholics...
...left Roxbury that day, and made his way over to Harvard Square and Max Keezer's used clothing store. The next time he was seen at Whalen's Place, Curley sported full evening dress--cutaway and striped pants. Shabby though it may have been in a few places, his Harvard cutaway helped Curley make a name for himself. He wore it in campaigns for thirteen years until he was elected to Congress in 1911. Then Curley gave the suit away to a cousin who, in due time, he saw waked...