Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's the kind of man Hanfstaengl was, a strange mix of Harvard old boy, genial party host and amateur politico...
...that the Stanley Mark Rifkin thief never touched the money. The robber was so clever that the bank did not realize it had been robbed until told so by the FBI eight days afterward. Last week the FBI arrested the suspected thief: Stanley Mark Rifkin, 32, a balding and genial computer expert...
...deep are the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How inscrutable his judgments, how unsearchable his ways!" St. Paul's words rang out across St. Peter's Square in the genial, high-pitched voice of John Paul I on that happy day last month, Sept. 3, when he was installed as Pope and "Supreme Pastor" for the world's 700 million Roman Catholics. The new Pope was invoking Scripture as a commentary on the conclave that had unexpectedly elected him?and in a swift, single day at that. Last week the text he had chosen took...
...Pope's flexibility, any predictions about his papacy?liberal, middle-of-the-road or conservative?are perilous. Above all, the Cardinals seemed to want a pastoral figure, and they selected a man with no experience in the Vatican bureaucracy or diplomatic service. John Paul is a quietly genial man whose priests find him approachable. He is also the third Patriarch of Venice to become Pope in this century. The first was Pius X.* The second was John XXIII, a beloved figure of reform...
DIED. Bob Crane, 49, genial star of television's long-running comedy series Hogan's Heroes; of repeated blows to the head by an unknown assailant in his hotel room; in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he was appearing in a play. Crane found success first as a dance-band and symphony drummer, then as a clowning disc jockey. In 1965 he abandoned a $150,000-a-year radio post on KNX in Los Angeles to risk acting in a new CBS-TV comedy series about American prisoners of war in a German concentration camp. The show was an unexpected...