Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Cover: Grease pencil and watercolor by Edward Sorel. Caricaturist Sorel's first cover for TIME on the leading candidate for mayor of New York City gives him one more opportunity to indulge a favorite pastime: "Making faces at some sacred cows." Earlier targets of his pointed pen have...
"A crown of glittering and priceless jewels," was Arthur Houghton Jr.'s metaphor. The president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was describing a gift that is soon to become part of the Met's permanent exhibits: the art collection of the late Robert Lehman...
Not content to be a political kingmaker, Franklin D. Roosevelt fancied himself a prince-of-the-church maker as well. He lobbied successfully for Francis Spellman's appointment as archbishop of New York, and in 1939, when Chicago's George William Cardinal Mundelein died, F.D.R. had his hand...
Born in a mixed black-white, Catholic-Jewish, Irish-Polish neighborhood on Chicago's West Side, Sheil was lace-curtain Irish. His grandfather had been an alderman, his father was Democratic leader of the 14th Ward. Entering St. Viator's College in Bourbonnais (a later pupil: Fulton J...
The Shell Game. Through the years, Sheil's views were often antithetical to those of his church: he opposed, for instance, the Franco regime in Spain. He was among the first to assail the Sunday afternoon fulminations of Radio Priest Charles Coughlin at. home. He adopted as his own...