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Greatest of missionaries since Apostolic times was, in Roman Catholic opinion, St. Francis Xavier, who helped to found the Society of Jesus, who died in 1552 on an island near China. His body was placed in the Church of Bom Jesus in Goa. Portuguese India. Canonized in 1622. through him were performed miracles which church authorities recognize as "stupendous." Last month the embalmed corpse of St. Francis Xavier was exposed, for the 13th time since his death, for public veneration. It was declared to be in good condition (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week it was replaced in its silver sarcophagus...
...Guns boomed, bells pealed, fireworks flared in Goa, Portuguese India last week as 10,000 persons milled through the Bom Jesus Church to kiss the feet of St. Francis Xavier, whose coffin was opened for public veneration for the 13th time since his death in 1552. The corpse was officially reported to be "in good condition." During the next month a million pilgrims are expected to view it. St. Francis Xavier, one of St. Ignatius Loyola's associates in founding the Society of Jesus, is regarded by his church as the greatest missionary since the time of the Apostles...
With Edwards out, the City Council proceeded to choose its little presiding officer, Robert Harlin, to be Mayor of Seattle until the next election. Bom in England, Mayor Harlin sorted coal there in his youth, later served for years as president of the United Mine Workers of Washington State...
Mary Hay's father was Brig.-General Frank Merrill Caldwell, U. S. A. He was stationed at Fort Bliss, Tex. when she was bom 29 years ago. She was 17, spry and "cute" when she stepped into the chorus of Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic. In 1920 she married Cinemactor Richard Barthelmess, and the same year her charm and intelligence got her a part in Mr. Ziegfeld's Sally. The Hayday came in 1923, when she starred in her own show, Mary Jane McKane, and when she and spindleshanked Clifton Webb sang and danced to "Two Little...