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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Church with headquarters near Beirut. Generally considered one of the best brains in the church, Agagianian was appointed by Pope Pius XII to succeed the late Cardinal Stritch as chief of all Catholic missions, is the church's top expert on the Mideast and Communism. His Russian-Armenian origin, which militates against his choice, in another respect weighs in his favor: his election would greatly impress Russians and other Eastern peoples...
...Funny Farm. The origin of such far-out fun can probably be traced back to Winters' paternal grandfather, a delicately balanced bank president given to walking the streets of Dayton, flapping his arms at his pal Orville Wright and screeching: "How's the airplane, Orville?" Johnny's wealthy parents were divorced when he was seven, and his mother moved him to Springfield, Ohio, where he slept in a "brass-rail bed with a dead mouse in the corner." After a World War II tour with the Marines and a nodding acquaintance with college, Johnny entered a Dayton...
...light a Scotsman's cigarette. American cowboys peddled Scotch whisky in Spanish, and an African witch doctor praised British beer. Victims of auto accidents emerged with their shirts clean because they had been washed with France's Pax soap. "You can always tell the country of origin without a catalogue, even if you don't spot the language." said Judge Thomas P. Olesen of Denmark. "French commercials are artificial. The English always have humor and typical British understatement. Italian commercials have good music. Germans are good but boring. Latin Americans feature the hard sell, just like...
...felt that the University might reopen the issue later if there is too much difficulty. At present there is no reference to photographs on any application, and secondary schools have been asked especially not to make any statement "which would indicate the candidate's race, creed, color, or national origin" in their reports...
Tillich's story is called "Memory of the Morning After" and is about Louis Collin who never uses alcohol and carries a fresh pack of cigarettes because it is good psychology "to break the ice" when he meets people. Louis is a boy of modest origin and of modest imagination who in spite of such failings can perceive that the only way to get anywhere in the world is to snag the attention of the boss, to show him what a fellow with a genuine dose of ambition can really...