Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Auxiliary bishop of Chicago, good friend of labor, good friend of youth, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization. The other was the godfather of the town, His Eminence George William Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, great liberal of the Church, great builder and money-raiser for the sprawling archdiocese he had headed for nearly a quarter of a century. The speech over which they worked was to be delivered next evening at a C. Y. O. convention in Cincinnati. Bishop Sheil was to speak it, but it represented the thoughts of Cardinal Mundelein. His thoughts...
...Cape Cod, it could be repopulated overnight by the fictional offspring of Joseph Crosby Lincoln. Last week Author Lincoln, collaborating with his nonfictional offspring Freeman, proved that not even a hurricane can stop him from writing about Cape Cod, used the big blow of 1938 merely as curtain raiser for The Ownley Inn. Before the final curtain, when the stolen New England Primer (value: $60,000) is recovered, and broken-nosed Puss Clarke makes up with his ex-fiancée, a full cast of summer folk and Down East worthies have sauntered across the stage...
...canny administrator. Arriving when Harvard was becoming stodgy and losing renowned old professors, Conant hired brilliant young teachers, jabbed a hypodermic into stodgy places, but made no basic change in the Harvard system. President Hutchins, now 40, is impatient with all existing systems. Smart, handsome, charming, a crack money raiser, Hutchins appeared headed for undisputed place as alltime All-American college president until he soured his faculty by trying to remake Chicago on a medieval pattern. Sour or sweet, his faculty is stronger than when he arrived...
Balletomanes were charmed by the curtain raiser to the Benét-Moore opera. Called Filling Station, it was a fantasy danced by the Ballet Caravan to polished music by Virgil Thomson. This week the American Lyric Theatre presents more ballet and another light opera, Susanna, Don't You Cry, constructed around the beloved melodies of Stephen Foster...
Coach Andy Coakley's Lions have won but one of their three League games. First of all, they granted the Crimson a welcome 11 to 3 win in New York last month in the League curtain-raiser for the Stahlmen, and then they went on to split a twin bill with Dartmouth. Pitching has been the chief dilemma for the Morningsiders, because most of their flingers are sadly lacking in experience...