Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven years as director of Manhattan's Xavier Labor School, Father Philip Carey has become a familiar figure to thousands of working men & women. He is a mild and scholarly Jesuit whose students are electricians, scrubwomen, plumbers, bus drivers, pipe fitters, and wire lathers. The lesson Father Carey teaches them: how to build strong and effective unions...
Last week, as the first term of the academic year ended at Xavier, 150 men & women were enrolled. But these were only a fraction of the school's real student body. This month, while New York's dock strike raged (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Xavier's assistant director, Father John Corridan, was devoting full time to a steady stream of longshoremen coming for advice. The school never takes sides in such disputes; its influence is felt only indirectly. But over the years, union men all over the East have come to realize that Jesuits Carey and Corridan...
...Chicago, Abbe Lane, featured singer with the Xavier Cugat band, and the cause of a separate maintenance suit filed by Mrs. Cugat, told the court her side of the story. Mrs. Cugat had charged that detectives found the singer "naked as a jay bird" in a hotel room with her rumba-loving husband. Not so, said Abbe. She had used the room simply to make a quick change for a midnight movie with the boss. When the detectives burst in, she said, "I had panties on and slippers." but "no brassiere, not with that gown." And how was Mr. Cugat...
...Hernandez Heras, organizer of the exhibit, picked up d'Ors' idea of universalism and sailed it back. Could he accept "the Herculean forms of a prizefighter that Michelangelo gave God in the Sistine Chapel...the fat Flemish women Rubens painted as Virgins?" Heras, who teaches at St. Xavier's College, Bombay, thought some of the Indian types were "nearer to the Judean type of Jesus and the Holy Family than our classic figures...
...Radio?" asked Bandleader Xavier Cugat last week on TV's Cavalcade of Bands. "What's that?" The next day he learned. Indignant Bernice Judis, general manager of Manhattan's music and news radio station WNEW, issued a blast against all jokesters who make merry at radio's expense, and announced that she saw no reason why she should continue to "build up and support their careers." Then she ordered WNEW to stop playing the records of Xavier Cugat and any other artists "who publicly depreciate the medium of radio...