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...following year, King Philippe de Valois of France presented to one of his lords a cloth purporting to be the same shroud. Two bishops forbade veneration of it, presumably because it was a fraud; and in 1390 Pope Clement VII issued a special bull ordering that it should be treated only as "a painted representation of the original, authentic Holy Shroud, whose whereabouts are unknown." Since 1452 the cloth has been the property of the Italian House of Savoy. On special occasions it was exhibited to the faithful, but in the 19th Century, at least, it seems to have appeared...
...Pope Clement VII and the 14th Century bishops must have had good reason for positively declaring that the shroud was not authentic...
...Clement Attlee's Labor government last week faced its hardest important parliamentary test and every M.P. who could walk was in the House of Commons. Latecomers stood toe to heel in the back of the chamber. On Labor's front bench, little Clem Attlee, more inconspicuous than ever, was squeezed in between Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps...
Historians of World War II may yet recognize their great debt to British Prime Minister Clement Attlee. By enforcing a measure of leisure on Winston Churchill, Mr. Attlee has probably hastened the progress of the finest single contribution so far to the history of the war. The Grand Alliance is the third and longest volume of Churchill's war memoirs and covers the year 1941. It seems to be more hurriedly written, as if against time, but it brings that critical year stirringly alive, conveys with enormous authority and engaging candor its crushing despair and growing hopes...
Other winners are: Betty I. Bandeen, James T. Bonnen 1G, John A. Bradshaw '41 4G, A. George Davis 3G, Gifford B. Doxsee 2G, Joseph Finkelstein 2G, Norton M. Hintz 3G, Eloise Knapp, Clement Moritz 4G, Nancy Nimitz, Clifton J. Phillips 1G, and Bertram L. Woodruff...