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Locked Door. The conclave will begin Oct. 25, end only when a new Pope is chosen. By week's end it appeared that perhaps 50 of the 55 surviving members of the Sacred College (full strength: 70) would attend the conclave. Of the Iron Curtain cardinals, only Poland's Wyszynski seemed likely to come to Rome. Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, living in the American legation in Budapest, and Yugoslavia's Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, ailing and confined to his village, almost surely cannot attend. Other doubtful participants: France's Georges Cardinal Grente, 86, and Chile...
Hippocrates, retained his faculties until the end, died (according to Cicero) with "pen in hand" at 80. Michelangelo worked hard as chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica up to his death at 89. Titian, whose birth date is in some doubt, was about 94 when he painted his great Battle of Lepanto, was between 96 and 99 and working on the Pieta at his death. Izaak Walton compleated revising The Compleat Angler at 83. John Wesley was preaching regularly at 88. Benjamin Franklin was a power in the Constitutional Convention at 81, served as president of Pennsylvania...
With the college football season a third complete, national and regional pictures began shaking down: ¶ The game of the week was at South Bend, Ind., where Army used its famed "lonesome end" chiefly as a decoy to loosen Notre Dame defenses, sent Halfbacks Bob Anderson and Pete Dawkins slashing downfield in a 14-2 victory that established the Cadets as the class of the country...
Toward the end of his life, as he lay dying in an abandoned post office in Centerport, L.I. that he had bought as a studio-home, he watched the sea gulls flying past his window. "Their beaks," he wrote, "look like ivory thrown slowly through space." In words, it was the quality and response to nature Dove had spent all his life attempting to capture in paint...
Glow of Furnaces. Steel was living up to the hopes steelmen held for it earlier in the year. Last.week the American Iron and Steel Institute reported that production in September reached 65.8% of capacity, the highest of any month this year. By week's end. producers were running closer to 71%. The reason for the steel upsurge was simply that many firms had cut inventories so low that they were hustling to order before a shortage set in. Jones & Laughlin, fourth largest producer, upped its output to 82% as a result of "a sharp increase in orders...