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PaGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, January 21,1982
Memorial Mass Celebrated For Red Smith
RED SMITH DIES - Walter “Red” Smith,
right, Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist, is
pictured in 1979 joking with New York Yankee
Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio. Smith died Jan. 15
at age 76. The funeral of Smith, a Notre Dame
alumnus, was scheduled for Wednesday at St
Patrick’s Cathedral.
NEW YORK (NC) - A memorial Mass was celebrated
Jan. 20 in St. Patrick’s Cathedral for Walter Wellesley
(Red) Smith, the Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist
of The New York Times, who died Jan. 15 at Stamford
Hospital in Stamford, Conn. He was 76 years old.
Smith had been in failing health for several years after
undergoing surgery for cancer of the colon.
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for “Distinguished
Commentary” in 1976, Smith was only the second sports
columnist ever to receive that award. The Pulitzer
committee said Smith’s work was “unique in the
erudition, the literary quality, the vitality and the
freshness of viewpoint.”
A 1927 graduate of the University of Notre Dame,
Smith, who often identified himself as a “newspaper
stiff,” once said, “I never wanted to be an actor, never
wanted to sell insurance, never wanted to drive a truck.
All I wanted to do is what I’m doing.”
He considered writing about sports significant.
“Sports is not really a play world,” he said. “I think it’s
the real world. The people we’re writing about in
professional sports, they’re suffering and living and dying
and loving and trying to make their way through life just
as the bricklayers and politicians are.
“This may sound defensive - I don’t think it is -- but
I’m aware that games are a part of every culture we know
anything about. And often taken seriously. It’s no
accident that of all the monuments left of the
Greco-Roman culture, the biggest is the ball park, the
Colosseum, the Yankee Stadium of ancient times. The
man who reports on these games contributes his small bit
to the record of his time.”
In recent years, he wrote harshly of the owners of
professional sports teams in their labor-management
relations. He titled one of his columns on
employer-employee relations in baseball, “Lively Times in
the Slave Trade.”
He was the first columnist to propose publicly that the
United States boycott the Moscow Olympics because of
Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. He made the proposal
in his column of Jan. 4, 1980, and President Carter
formally adopted a boycott on Jan. 20.
But he often wrote with a light touch. Covering a
college football game, he quoted, tongue in cheek, a
program hawker: “Get your programs, folks - the names,
numbers and salaries of all the players.”
Once asked to write an autobiography for a magazine,
he wrote: “Red Smith, christened Walter Wellesley Smith
on a cold day in Green Bay, Wis., has been bleeding out a
daily sports column for the Herald Tribune for about
three years. Previous conditions of servitude have included
10 years at hard labor on the Philadelphia Record, eight
years on the St. Louis Star-Times and a year with the
Milwaukee Sentinel. He admires sports for others and
might have been an athlete himself except that he is small,
puny, slow, inept, uncoordinated, myopic and yellow. He
is the proprietor of two small children, one large
mortgage.”
He was born on Sept. 25, 1905 in Green Bay, the
second of three children of Walter Philip and Ida
Richardson Smith. His father had a wholesale produce and
retail grocery business.
At the University of Notre Dame, he majored in
journalism, edited the school yearbook and briefly
participated in track.
After graduation, he worked ' for the Milwaukee
Sentinel as a copy editor and in 1928 joined the copy
desk of the St. Louis Star.
In 1936, he joined the Philadelphia Record as a
sportswriter and columnist and in 1945 he became a
full-time columnist for The New York Herald Tribune. His
column was syndicated in 90 newspapers, and in 1954,
when Grantland Rice died, he became the most widely
syndicated sports columnist.
When The Herald Tribune became part of the new
World Journal Tribune in 1966, Smith became sports
columnist for the new newspaper. When it folded the
following year, his syndicated column survived.
In 1971, he was hired by The New York Times. His
three or four columns a week were syndicated by The
New York Times News Service to 275 newspapers in the
United States and 225 in about 30 foreign nations.
In 1933, he married Catherine Cody of St. Louis. They
had two children, Terence, now an editor with The New
York Times, and Catherine Halloran of Grafton, Wis.
His wife died in 1967 and in 1968 he married Phyllis
Warner Weiss.
In addition to his wife, son and daughter, survivors
include five step-children, six grand-children and two
great-grandchildren.
Free Clinic Traces Roots
To Catholic Worker Houses
PHILADELPHIA (NC) - “I think what we do comes
from the center of the church,” said Dr. Ann Hanahoe
Hines, a pediatrician who treats thousands of poor
children free of charge at a clinic she and her husband
founded.
The Cyril and Mary Hanahoe Clinic in Danbury, Conn.,
serves about 1,000 families, Dr. Hines said in an interview
with The Catholic Standard and Times, Philadelphia
archdiocesan newspaper. About half of the families pay
two or three dollars for the service: the others pay
nothing. The clinic is funded primarily through donations,
about 70 percent of which come from church groups.
“My husband and I share a strong feeling for the social
action statements of the popes and the Catholic Church,”
Dr. Hines said. “We believed the resources God gave us
should be shared, not hoarded. A big influence was the
Catholic Worker movement of Dorothy Day.”
A native of Philadelphia and a graduate of Rosemont
College, Dr. Hines met her husband, who holds a
doctorate in chemistry, at the Newman Center at the
University of Pennsylvania, where she was studying
medicine.
While her husband teaches chemistry, she directs the
clinic. She is at the clinic with a nurse and a receptionist
four days a week. This schedule enables her to combine the
work of clinic director with the raising of the Hines’ three
children, a six-year-old, a four-year-old and a
21-month-old.
“I always had the concept of the doctor as missionary,
not as rich,” Dr. Hines said. She said she was greatly
influenced by a Medical Mission Sister in Philadelphia, her
teachers and the late Dr. Tom Dooley, the physician who
founded an organization to establish medical services in
underdeveloped countries.
After studying pediatrics at Georgetown University, she
worked at a hospital in the South Bronx section of New
York City.
In 1970, while she was there, the Young Lords, a
militant Puerto Rican group, took over the hospital “and
they had every right to,” Dr. Hines said. “It had rats and
many children had been poisoned by lead paint and falling
plaster.”
Dr. Hines concluded, “Before my marriage I wanted to
work overseas but I ended up here because the need is
everywhere.”
Slipping On Atlanta Ice—
(Continued from page 1)
stability and momentum.
At least I was going forward.
Too bad it starts on a down
hill.
Ahead of me, ten or so
people were strung out
like climbers tied by an
invisible rope, each taking
their best shot: some
opting for the building
edges, others braving it at
the curbs. I just hadn’t
considered snow and ice
without voluminous piles
of salt and sand. I hadn’t
thought that, unlike New
England, • every Atlanta
business is not equipped
with shovels, and a bag of
something - even fireplace
ashes -- to cut the ice.
Inch by inch, I made it
eventually to the middle
of Peachtree Street,
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when it’s empty off into
the distance and how
everything human, even
the buildings, seem cut
down to size and altered
by the snow and ice
clinging to every crevice.
At last I reached
Margaret Mitchell Square,
weary but in sight of
Greyhound. Manuvering to
the other side of the
street, I was crushed. The
leaping dog on the sign
was just a few blocks
away, but we were
separated by an unbroken
expanse of glistening ice.
In the blocks between,
only one man could be
seen, a tow truck operator
who was trying to get out
to help someone, but
having trouble walking
himself. His legs splayed
and both hands grasped
the truck side. His feet
kept swimming, looking
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for a grip as he half hung
on the vehicle.
Visions of all the
northern snows I had
conquered suddenly
melted as quickly as my
courage. It was all
downhill. I wouldn’t have
tried it on a sled. And I
began to wonder what
time it was and whether
the printer was even
waiting to hear from me
after so long. After a
feeble attempt to
approach from the north, I
was ready to quit. Then I
met a woman, struggling
toward home in the high
heels and proper office
attire she had put on the
day before. We exchanged
plights as we slogged
along, she about a night
trapped in the city, I
about the elusive package.
“Don’t give up,” she
advised me as we parted.
“You’ve made it this far.
Try the curbs.”
Instead I skidded into a
steam-windowed shop, the
only one I’d seen that was
open. The fast-food
restaurant, run by
Koreans, was filled with
people emerging from
nearby offices for sausage
biscuits. You have never
heard people so happy to
be handed coffee and a
biscuit -- as if being
reassured that a measure
of the South had survived
Tuesday night. Warmed by
the coffee and pluck of
this motley crew,
ill-dressed for the weather,
but laughing and
determined, I decided if
these nearly senior citizens
in heels were managing, I
could make it.
I went out, approaching
from the south this time,
on Luckie Street, and after
a gallant assist from a few
men accustomed to
surviving and sleeping in
Atlanta’s streets, made it
to less treacherous terrain.
Spring Street was even
slushy, as buses began to
travel on a regular basis.
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Dodging a truck, and a
nasty look from the driver,
I continued my parade
around the corner, and slid
into the Greyhound
parking area. It was 10:30,
two hours after I had left
home. The lone
Greyhound attendant
asked what I wanted and I
burst out laughing. By
now it had dawned on me
that the only people here
were those stuck and a few
type-A personalities,
fighting the nature of the
place. “I came for a
package,” I said,
con trolling myself
momentarily. He ambled
to a desk where slips of
paper note arrivals. He
shuffled the list once, then
twice. He asked the name
again and shuffled again.
It’s not here, he said. His
words escaped me; I
almost didn’t hear him. He
tried again: “Where was
the package coming
from?” Augusta, I said. No
buses, he said, had made it
from Augusta to Atlanta
overnight. I started
chuckling again, then
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