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Pope Urban IV, who was in Orvieto at the time taking refuge from a threatened invasion of Rome from Sicily, ordered the blood-sported corporal brought within the safety of Orvieto's walls. Inspired by the miracle (Orvietans declare), Urban IV instituted the feast of Corpus Christi. He then presented the corporal to the "good people of Orvieto who with much valor and sacrifice saved our person and protected us, thereby fully deserving the honor to protect the Lamb's blood as they saved the Lamb's vicar...
...Woody" is shown above (right) shaking hands with assistant conductor William F. Russell after the Choral members' performance of Russell's "Cantata Feast Argent," written especially in honor of the occasion...
...adequate pension reserve fund, invested largely in Government or top-rated corporate bonds, and to a lesser extent in good common stocks, should be set up to assure the payment of benefits in good & bad years alike. In a feast & famine industry such as textiles, the reserve should be higher than in such steadier industries as chemicals and public utilities...
...mouse lives in our closet and eats our snack food," a Bortram Hall girl remarked. "It had a feast when we left a jar of cheese on the floor, but now we are plotting its murder...
...took her years to work the story out," says the Literary Guild, which is serving The Feast as its April banquet. Why it took so long is hard to say, since there is nothing in the book that has not been done already-either much better by Thornton Wilder and Arnold Bennett or just as badly by Marguerite Steen, Taylor Caldwell and Daphne du Maurier...