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...could not. The Consultative Assembly sang and cheered. In the Place de la Concorde mounds of flowers banked the massive grey stone statue dedicated to Strasbourg. Through the day Parisians walked through the great square, to doff their hats at the statue. At night, midinettes celebrating the spinsters' feast, St. Catherine's Day, kissed many a G.I. who had never been near Strasbourg...
...TIME (Oct. 2) appears a reference and a picture of George Catlin, painter, writer, and authority on the American Indian. George Catlin was a great-great-uncle of mine. One particularly delightful anecdote which has come down in the family concerns a feast given to a visitor, a friend of Catlin's. As the assemblage sat on the ground, a squaw passed behind the tenderfoot and whispered hospitably, "Dig deep, white man; puppy in bottom...
There were two uninvited presences at the feast, but nobody toasted them...
Durham itself was divided. The City Council stuck by its power plant. One veteran member shook a gnarled old fist at the cathedral. "Yon bloody parsons gets their money regular," he cried. "It don't matter to them if Durham is unemployed and hungry. A feast of beauty the Dean calls his ruddy cathedral-but it won't fill empty stomachs. The Dean and that lot, they'd like to keep this ruddy city as it was centuries...
...Decided not to distribute the medal issued annually on the Vigil of the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul (June 28) to commemorate some notable event of the past papal year. Reason: The medal approved by Pius XII several months ago showed the Pope standing in an attitude of prayer amid the ruins caused by the first U.S. bombing of Rome last July. The old medal will be melted down, a new design drawn. Rumored theme: the Pope depicted as the protector and savior of Rome...