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...throne sat Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., whose name (pronounced chee-kone-yonny) had become to many an impious Detroiter "Chicken Annie." Three papal bulls were read and Archbishop Mooney knelt in prayer until the Apostolic Delegate led him to the throne, placed a crosier (crook) in his hand...
...last week. The young man's mother and two beaming aunts sat in nearby pews. To assist the red-robed Episcopal primate in the job at hand were the young man's onetime headmaster as preacher, his younger brother as crucifer, two of his cousins as crosier-bearer and litanist. His hands trembling with emotion, Bishop Perry draped a stole about the neck of his first-born son and led the new deacon to the Cathedral altar...
...Receive the Holy Ghost." The Cardinal imposed his hands, anointed the Bishop-elect's head and hands, thrice prayed "Whatsoever thou shalt bless, may it be blessed . . ." and Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman was a bishop. He took his crosier (pastoral staff), episcopal ring, book of Gospels, mitre and gloves, and proceeded through St. Peter's, blessing the congregation as he went. Returning to the altar. Bishop Spellman genuflected thrice, wished his consecrator well with a thrice- intoned "Ad multos annos" (for many years...
...hammer throw, Vonckx will oppose Captain Crosier of the Dartmouth squad. If the Crimson weight man can turn in a performance similar to his hurl of 157 feet, 10 1-2 inches, which gained him second place at the Penn Carnival, he should have no trouble in vanquishing the Green leader...
...weight events, Cornell has a decided edge. Frank Weiss, the Ithacan's 35-pound weight throw winner in 1929 is decidedly the favorite again this year, with Crosier of Dartmouth once more the probable second place winner. Lawrence Levy should place in this event and walk away with the shot put. Last year he did 45 feet, 6 inches, placing second to Anderson, who broke the meet record