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Less Frivolity. Booming Christmas sales, which usually account for about 20% of all annual retail sales, are being taken by retailers as a good omen for 1964, and a sign that merchants can expect to set more records this spring, when Easter comes earlier than usual (March 29). At the beginning of this year's Christmas rush, merchants noted a fall-off in sales after the President's death, and when the crowds set forth again, they showed more restraint and less frivolity than in many years. But people still had to buy gifts for wives and husbands...
...will soon be time to retire. The first Negro to sing at the Metropolitan Opera (in 1955), possessor of a score of honorary degrees and countless other kudos, she will undertake one last world tour running from next October to the following June, with a final U.S. appearance on Easter Sunday, 1965, in Carnegie Hall. Carnegie's box office is already getting ticket requests...
...Heart of Jesus order got a $100,000 donation from Bos ton's Richard Cardinal Cushing, and started a woman's college in Uruguay a country so bleakly antichurch that the feast of the Epiphany is celebrated as children's day, Christmas as family day and Easter as family week. Today, Mother McGloin's 18-man faculty includes three with doctorates and eight instructors with the equivalent of master's degrees...
...substantial action. Nearly every day the bishops made a bit of news by ratifying some new chapter of the long schema (draft proposal) on liturgy. For example, they authorized greater use of the vernacular in the Mass and the sacraments, and the setting of a fixed date for Easter if secular governments and other Christian bodies agreed. In reality, most of these votes simply rubber-stamped ideas that had been approved in principle at the 1962 session. The rest of the time, the bishops listened to a repetitious debate on the first item on the session's agenda...
...devout Callas admirer, gossipmongers inevitably asked each other in what language Callas' husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, had talked to Elsa. Maxwell readers also thrilled to a three-year feud with the Duchess of Windsor, which had its well-publicized happy ending aboard the United States on Easter Sunday...