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Around the village of Bazouges-du-Désert, in Brittany, the apples grow big and sweet, and the Calvados (apple brandy) is a potable that is more in demand than the local water. In the town one morning last week the biggest bell in the church tower began to peal. It was a familiar but urgent tocsin of alarm. Government tax collectors had been sighted. The revenuers were looking for illegal Calvados and unlicensed stills...
...song, "In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home," and Ellen's "Embroidery in childhood." There are also some chorus tunes which show Britten's skill at folk music. The most effective writing is in the alternation of Ellen's singing to the apprentice with excerpts from the church service off-stage...
Respect for the Enemy. During their two-year course the priest-students study economics, law (especially labor legislation), Communism, cooperatives, farm problems, history, geography, English, and the social doctrines of the Catholic Church. Each day's work is concluded with study of the Gospel-an antidote to the stiff daily dose of secular thinking...
...Hall, pink-cheeked Clemente Cardinal Micara rose and begged the Pope's permission to close her case. One by one the assembled cardinals rose and bowed to the papal throne; then, as the Pope asked each one for his opinion, each murmured "placet" (it pleases). The canonization, say church authorities, will almost certainly take place within the next year...
Died. The Rev. Dom John Hugh Diman, O.S.B., 85, founder and longtime headmaster of Rhode Island's famed St. George's (Episcopal) School and of Portsmouth Priory (Roman Catholic) School; after a heart attack; in Portsmouth, R.I. A onetime Episcopal clergyman, Father Diman joined the Catholic church at 54, entered a Benedictine abbey in Scotland, returned to the U.S. to found (in 1926) the School of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth Priory...