Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debate about "a Roman Catholic in the White House" continues against the background of a significant fact: U.S. Roman Catholics have greatly increased both in number and influence during the past 50 years. The prospect of Catholics' becoming the majority group may once have horrified U.S. Protestants. To what extent that climate of opinion has changed is demonstrated by the New Republic with a symposium of three experts: Congregationalist John C. Bennett, dean of Manhattan's Interdenominational Union Theological Seminary; Unitarian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., professor emeritus of history at Harvard and Pulitzer-prize-winning author...
Miriam Goldnne consulted the office background file. All this took three hours. Over a sandwich and coffee at his desk, Riesel listened again while Miriam read aloud the accumulated story notes. Then he wrote his column, from time to time asking help: "Read me the citation in the Kefauver report ... I want exact figures on the Sun Valley land deal." It took him one hour and 3^ triple-spaced typewritten pages, each full page breaking neatly with a finished paragraph...
...gave a three-day jail sentence (suspended) to Alan H. W. Chiang, 25, a grandson of Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, for revving his car up to 80 m.p.h. in a 65-m.p.h. zone. Not at all impressed by young Business School Student Chiang's influential background, the judge was most displeased at the State Department's efforts to save Chiang's face, and at Chiang's demand for a jury trial, duly granted, but made pointless by Chiang's plea amounting to no defense...
...charge came from a physician with an unusual background. Los Angeles-born Donald L. Donohugh was 17 when Pearl Harbor interrupted his premedical studies at U.C.L.A. He enlisted, then got an appointment to the Naval Academy. Graduating in 1946, Donohugh served six years (through the Korean war) before he could get to medical school (California, '56). After interning in San Diego and a residency in Monterey, he signed up for a two-year stint as a civilian medical officer in Samoa, took his wife and children to Pago Pago. There, last month, convinced that his alarm signals about leprosy...
...plot is banal enough, but the Abbey company plays its comedy with a fine Irish verve. Actress Harris blends nicely into the background of County Wicklow, where the picture was made. Wrote Manhattan's Irish Echo: "To native ears her carefully acquired 'brogue' jars at times, but who could have done better? . . . God bless...