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...WORLD-Ernest Dimnet- Simon & Schuster...
...sunny June morning in 1919, an energetic, 52-year-old French abbe named Ernest Dimnet arrived in Manhattan to raise funds for the War-devastated Lille University. The abbe had had little formal preparation for his task. He had grown up in a provincial village in the north of France, studied at the University of Lille, written a religious volume that was placed on the Index, a biography of the Bronte sisters that won him a small but solid transatlantic reputation...
...began with a series of staggering rebuffs. When he called on Cardinal Hayes, the man he got to see was young Monsignor Dineen, the Cardinal's secretary, who said impatiently, "This city is full of begging priests from all over the world ..." and walked away even after Abbe Dimnet proved his identity. Out in the street again, the abbe shook his head, laughed nervously, reminded himself that he was a man of letters of some standing, and walked to the Colony Club, where he was to appeal to a luncheon group of 20 ladies, "all Catholic and all Christian...
...pieces of original research. At the Academy's convention last week, Optometrist Laurence P. Folsom of South Royalton, Vt., advised his colleagues that "the way to make money from the practice of optometry is to forget money." Dr. Folsom, who reads history, Emerson and the Abbé Dimnet, recommended that cash registers, show cases, "dealer-help" display cards and other such commercial paraphernalia be kept out of the patient's sight, that no clock be placed on the reception room wall for waiting patients to count the minutes...
...WORLD-Ernest Dimnet- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Reminiscences of the French abbe whom a shrewd Manhattan publisher made into a best-seller (The Art of Thinking...