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...Dominican priest's remark came in his introduction of Willard Edwards, Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who spoke on "The Meaning of Alger Hiss." Edwards' talk, sponsored by the Aquinas Foundation was on the eve of the Hiss speech to the Whig-Cliosophic Society on "The Meaning of Geneva...
There is no end to Boston's pitching strength. Bob Porterfield seems slated for his best year ever; Willard Nixon can take twenty--and so can long Frank Sullivan--while the younger hurlers like Delock, Suce and Brewer should provide depth in the bullpen...
...south ballroom of Washington's Willard Hotel one night last week, a stocky, wavy-haired Dominican priest rose from his seat at the head table. As 800 guests burst out cheering, he made his way to the speaker's stand to receive the highest honor Catholic University alumni can pay. At 69, the Very Rev. Ignatius Smith, dean of C.U.'s School of Philosophy, became the ninth recipient of the Cardinal Gibbons medal, "for distinguished and meritorious service to the United States of America, the Catholic Church or the Catholic University of America." Though better-known...
...club members, who had originally set their party for Nov. 14, Mrs. Eisenhower's birthday, and had to postpone it when Ike was taken ill, gathered in the Willard Hotel, where they applauded warmly as their guest was led in to the strains of the Marine Band. The diners sat down to broiled chicken, vanilla parfait, "Mamie cakes" and small talk: Mrs. Eisenhower reported granddaughter Barbara Anne down with mumps and laughed heartily when Mrs. Kenneth H. Tuggle revealed that her daughter Sarah had written to the President to report that "I go to the same school with David...
Between numbers the camera switched to the guest of honor and several times discovered her dabbing at her eyes. There was much eye-dabbing in the Willard ballroom; the ladies understood when Mrs. Eisenhower rose at party's end to tell them: "This has been one of the most wonderful birthday parties I've ever had, but it certainly did tear my heartstrings." She said that she hoped her husband had seen it on TV. Ike, between conferences, had seen a part...