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...idea of Perspectives was presented to the foundation by James Laughlin, 37, great-grandson of the co-founder of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., and founder and angel of the avant-garde book publishing house, New Directions. Laughlin will be publisher and straw boss of Perspectives, but "to avoid any taint of cultism," each issue will have a different editor. Such critics and writers as Lionel Trilling, R. P. Blackmur, Malcolm Cowley, Jacques Barzun, Harry Levin and Mortimer Adler have already agreed to sit in. The foundation is setting aside $500,000 for Perspectives for the first three years, will print...
Newspaperman to Bishop. The U.S. hears less of a more potent group of Spanish churchmen, whose chief spokesman is a more modern man, Don Angel Herrera, 65, Bishop of Málaga. Bishop Herrera, onetime Madrid newspaperman who was ordained at 53, consecrated bishop at 60, believes, like Cardinal Segura, that Spain should be submissive to the church. But he insists that the proper role of the church is to guide, not goad, the Spanish people. Spain's pressing problems, Bishop Herrera holds, are the poverty of her people and the general backwardness of a clergy which...
...care of an incurably handicapped child would blight the parents' lives, and rule out a normal home for later children. Though the Franks are Jewish, a Protestant doctor advised them to get Petey into a Roman Catholic home for children. He explained: "It takes the patience of an angel to care for the mentally defective. The sisters are more likely to have it than any one else...
...Angel Gabriel? He would not, Newbold said, have appointed either man in the first place. When he was asked, "Has Vaughan been fired?" he replied, significantly, "Not yet." He was asked if he thought cabinet members who tolerated corruption should be fired. He answered: "What's so wonderful about a cabinet member?" He waxed sarcastic when someone wanted to know why Truman had ordered the cleanup drive. "Who," he intoned, "is to know whether the Angel Gabriel appeared to the President...
Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan launched an all-out search for the killer. An alarm was flashed for the only known pal of Willie Sutton who is still at large-Frederick J. ("The Angel") Tenuto, 37, a scarfaced murderer who broke out of prison with Sutton in 1947. Police technicians began a laboratory analysis of a dozen threatening letters Schuster had received. Sample: "You won't have long to live. Willie has friends." A great many people immediately leaped to the conclusion that Good Citizen Schuster had been killed by Willie's friends...