LOS ANGELES (CA)
Los Angeles Times
[photos of old newspaper clippings]
Msgr. Benjamin Hawkes held the purse strings of an institution with status and influence difficult to imagine today. Politicians and Hollywood stars lined up to have their pictures taken with Cardinal Francis McIntyre. The press chronicled his every public appearance. When McIntyre got a new dog — a Kerry terrier Hawkes bought for him — the Times published a story. When he traveled to Rome — with Hawkes at his side — reporters followed him to the boarding gate.
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