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...down in the chronicle of the San Domenico convent at Fiesole are the simple facts about Fra Angelico: in 1407 "Fr. Joannes Petri de Mugello iuxta Vichium, optimus pictor, qui multas tabulas et parietes in diversis locis pinxit, accepit habitum clericorum in hoc conventu . . . et in sequenti anno fecit professionem."* To this, Vasari adds only that Fra Giovanni's name was Guido, that he was born in 1387, and entered the Dominican monastery "chiefly for the sake of his soul and for his peace of mind...
Assi ille debe haber sparniate un mille per anno...
...gets the man over. It will delight Truman's admirers, and it will cause those who deplore him to gnash their teeth. Nobody, however, can deny that it is a strange and wonderful fact that the man pictured in Mr. President can be President of the U.S., anno Domini...
...stay-arounds are South Pacific, with Mary Martin and Ray Middleton at the Majestic on 44th; Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate, with Anno Jeffreys at the Shubert on 44th; Carol Channing in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the Anita Loos satire at the Ziogfeld at 54th and Sixth Avenue; and Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam with Irving Berlin's music at the Imperial on 45th...
...special assistant to the Pope). In a 35,000-word pastoral letter, a summary of which was read last Sunday from Roman Catholic pulpits in the province, Quebec's bishops firmly restated the church's principles on labor. Echoing the papal encyclicals Rerum Novarum (1891) and Quadragesima Anno (1931), the letter demanded a greater share for labor in the ownership and profit of industry...