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On the night after Christmas, as the police convoy approached the cardinal's residence, he scribbled a hasty postscript on the envelope that held his message. He warned his fellow priests to be skeptical if they heard that he had resigned, or had "confessed." Even if they were shown...
Ever since the war, Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has pitted the Roman Catholic Church against the Communists who run his country. Communist Boss Rakosi had tried every trick in the trade-from threatening to confiscate the church's property to withholding newsprint from the Catholic press-to...
Whether a confession of prejudice is required or not, most laymen will probably go on preferring Nicholson's more representational paintings. His paper-thin, impeccably tasteful abstractions strike some onlookers as a game of solitaire played with illegible cards. And to them, his geometrical bas-reliefs look as blandly...
Scuttled. In Croydon, England, Vice Admiral Sir John Edgell took a careful second look at his notes, abruptly ended his speech before the Royal Navy Old Comrades Association with a confession: "By mistake I brought a shopping list my wife gave me . . ."
A Call for Help. With the elections in the offing-and Democrats making hay with the case-Hull denounced the recordings as a fake, and demanded another grand jury. Governor Green's attorney general sent a special prosecutor to Peoria to handle it. Last week the second grand jury...