Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The scene is a melodramatic master stroke, a fusion of white heat of irony and violence, and for it Jules Dassin (Rififi, Never on Sunday), who both wrote and directed the film, deserves full credit. Unfortunately, Moviemaker Dassin must also bear most of the blame for the rest, which is...
Pope John XXIII appointed four new cardinals last week, thereby raising the membership of the Sacred College of Cardinals to 86. Two of the new red hats go to South Americans, one to an Italian and one to an American,* Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter, 68, of St. Louis, Mo., one...
When he was appointed Archbishop of St. Louis in 1946, to succeed John Cardinal Glennon (who died on his way back to the U.S. after being made a cardinal by Pope Pius XII), St. Louisans found Indiana-born Archbishop Ritter a far different kind of man from the warm and...
Some of the city's parochial schools were segregated and some were not; Archbishop Ritter ordered in 1947 that all be integrated at once. "The cross on top of our schools must mean something," he said. When a group of diehard segregationists threatened to take legal action, Archbishop Ritter...
Under Archbishop Ritter. St. Louis has gained 41 new churches and 16 new hospitals. St. Louis has also acquired a warm feeling for the quiet archbishop, who is notoriously inaccessible to newsmen. Asked by one of them-tongue in cheek -whether as cardinal he planned to hold regular press conferences...