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...Apostolic Church, whose policy today is based upon a system of concordats- agreements as between sovereign powers- which testify everywhere to the principle of Catholic freedom of action, even though in countries like Germany such freedom is not a fact. As a Catholic Diplomat Eugenio Pacelli rose swiftly. Born into an old Roman family which had furnished the Church many a functionary, this solemn, devout young man became a priest at 23, was summoned to the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs at 25. Monsignor Pietro Gasparri, who later became Cardinal and Secretary of State, took an interest in young...
...This week the big orchestras in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Chicago will start their seasons, under such proven leaders as Polish Artur Rodzinski, British Eugene Goossens and square old Frederick Stock, born a German but for many a year a proud Chicago institution. St. Louis' hopes are high again for a series of concerts under Vladimir Golschmann, the sleek Franco-Russian who has built himself a strong Missouri following. The Los Angeles Philharmonic was driving for money last week and awaiting the return of towering Otto Klemperer. San Francisco stages its opera season first, but by midwinter the rejuvenated symphony...
...presidents Brown has had since 1764 were all Baptist ministers. A pious Methodist layman, big, bespectacled Educator Wriston was born in Laramie, Wyo., 47 years ago, went to Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), got a Ph.D. in History at Harvard, returned to teach at Wesleyan. During the War he had a desk job with the Connecticut State Council of Defense, became a full professor at Wesleyan before being called to Lawrence...
...Life was born in 1883 as a weekly in the Broadway studio of a New York artist named John Ames Mitchell. Thirty-seven at the time, Mitchell pined to publish his black & white drawings by the new zinc process and for that purpose was willing to spend a $10,000 legacy from a relative...
...compose its obituary. Wrote the man whose name appeared in Life's first masthead with that of Founder Mitchell: "That Life should be passing into the hands of new owners and directors is of the liveliest interest to the sole survivor of the little group that saw it born at 1155 Broadway in January 1883. ... As for me, I wish it all good fortune; grace, mercy and peace and usefulness to a distracted world that does not know which way to turn nor what will happen to it next. A wonderful time for a new voice to make...