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...first to link all three North American capitals in a single day. That visit cost him 40 min. flying time while he hunted in vain for fog-bound Bolling Field, finally put down on Washington-Hoover Airport. He stopped for fuel twice again, at Birmingham and Corpus Christi, Tex. The whole day's 2,500-mi. flight he described as "uninteresting" save for the thrill of landing his high speed plane in the rarefied atmosphere of Mexico City...
...Catholic was driven from his home or church in Italy last week. To dramatize the passive struggle of the Church, Pius XI suspended all open air religious services and processions. Thus on Corpus Christi Day (which exuberant Italians have always celebrated in the street with the romp and frolic of a Mardi Gras fête) the only Catholic observances last week were services in church. To their subdued congregations, priests distributed printed copies of utterances by the Holy Father which censorship kept out of the Italian press...
...certain towns on Corpus Christi Day Fascists paraded with placards reading: "Our Parade Is In Honor Of Those Churchmen Who Do Not Meddle In Politics...
Sevillian choir boys dance prettily in the Cathedral on the festivals of Corpus Christi and the Immaculate Conception. In Chinese temples priests play on exotic little instruments. Hebrew cantors intone wailing dirges in their synagogs. But, thought perturbed members of the Maplewood Methodist Episcopal Church in Maiden, Mass., who ever heard of whistling in church...
...British Museum is also included in the group. He is Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, G.B.E., K.C.B., M.A., Hon. D. Litt., Hon. Fellow of New College and Magdalen College, and internationally known as an eminent classical scholar. The third man is Sir Edmund K. Chambers, K.B.E., M.A., Corpus Christi College, who is the author of several books on the history of the English theatre...