Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taste Without Purpose. The Examiner's exclusive story, carefully edited by the Chief himself, read like a chapter out of an authorized biography of the patriarch of U.S. chain journalism. To set the stage, it went back to W.R.'s dear, dead Harvard days: "If anything, the young Hearst had more of a potential than his fellows. Back of him were an unequaled upbringing, a connoisseur's taste. . . . But, by his own admission, the tall, blond and very elegant heir to mining millions lacked a purpose...
...many of these Germans sincerely want to become converts? The question has implications that would give a patriarch pause-and the slight, dark-haired U.S. Jewish chaplain who has to give the answers is no patriarch. But whether he likes it or not, Lieut. Mayer Abramowitz, 27, Jewish U.S. Army chaplain in Berlin, is ex officio chief rabbi of the city...
...seized and bussed on the forehead by tall, bearded Archbishop Athenagoras, Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America. The occasion: presentation of the Great Holy Cross of the Knights of the All-Holy Sepulchre and a piece of the Cross of Christ, as the "highest blessing of the Greek Orthodox Church...
When Theophilus sent Bishop Benjamin Basalyga of Pittsburgh, a group of several hundred White Russians in Japan, most of whom have recently taken out Soviet citizenship, requested Patriarch Alexei to supply a spiritual leader for the Japanese church. Alexei promptly raised the ante; he offered (through Soviet General Kuzma Derevyanko in Tokyo) to send in two bishops. Few Japanese converts to the Orthodox Church had supported the request to Alexei, and the Russian bishops were not allowed to enter...
After a 15-year struggle to dominate the Orthodox Church in the U.S., Moscow appeared ready to accept failure. Patriarch Alexei, who works closely with the Soviet Foreign Office, last week promised "full administrative autonomy" to the American churches of his faith...