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Even the Protestants of Switzerland had something to paste in their books. The day before the canonization, fashionable Rome turned out to hear the municipally supported Academia de Santa Cecilia sing the oratorio, Nicolas de Flue-words by Swiss Protestant Denis de Rougemont, music by Swiss Protestant Arthur Honegger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swiss Saint | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...something about this woman, who before and during the war was not on our team. . . . Norway doesn't want her, which is one very good reason for the United States not to take her.") In Seattle, which has the second largest Scandinavian population in the U.S., Impresario Cecilia Schultz said, "I positively refused to ... present her in concert here, because I have a deep-rooted allegiance for the American principles that this woman has ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Flagstad Case | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...addition to Professor Shapley, Professor Menzel, and Associate Director Bok; Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Astronomer; Fred L. Whipple, associate professor of Astronomy; and Walter O. Roberts, superintendent of the High Altitude Observatory at Climax, Colorado will serve on the advisory council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Policy Council Named For Observatory Staff | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

Died. Maria Cecilia ("Cissie") Loftus, 66, famed theatrical impersonator; in Manhattan. A London favorite at 16, she was a star there and on Broadway for some 40 years. First of her two husbands was playwright Justin Huntley McCarthy, in whose If I Were King she played opposite E. H. Sothern. She succeeded Ellen Terry as Sir Henry Irving's leading woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 19, 1943 | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...Criminal Mind. In Houston, two men robbed Mary Burns of $5, quickly handed back a $2 bill, explained that it might bring them bad luck. In Long Beach, Calif, a robber socked Store Proprietress Cecilia Dodgion, tied her up, gathered $104 worth of vitamin pills, gave his victim a kiss, explained, "I must be nuts," departed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 31, 1943 | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

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