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...Holy Year will begin next Christmas Eve. All through 1950, Roman Catholic pilgrims from every corner of the world will journey to Rome, hoping thereby to earn a plenary indulgence (remission of temporal punishment for forgiven sins). Authorities expect at least a million pilgrim visitors to Rome. To help house the throng, a large hostel is being built near the Vatican, and others on the city's outskirts. The Men's International Association for Catholic Action has set up a nonprofit organization called Felix Roma, to arrange tours allowing each pilgrim ten days in Italy (seven in Rome...
...week. After the second, she would have nothing to do with him-until three weeks later she recognized him in the yard, 50 feet away from the beehouse, and lit on the finger which had fed her. Says Dr. Shafer: "I felt as if I had been forgiven...
...jury had also heard government witnesses describe Miss Gillars as a willing and highly paid propagandist for the Nazis, and one who had done her insinuating best to undermine the morale of U.S. troops in Africa and Italy. The jury could be forgiven for keeping its eyes dry through her courtroom performance...
...pretty artist wife and a 120-acre farm in Maryland. He picked up fat fees from utility companies fighting the New Deal. Though he was not a Government official when war in Europe came along, he helped put over the 50-destroyer deal with Britain. In 1941, all was forgiven and Roosevelt made him Assistant Secretary of State...
...glorification of vulgarity) a thing which is funny in itself. Miss Walker must rely on her wide variety of comical walks, certain headgear which always manages to get in her eyes, outlandish get-ups which frequently hide all but that jutting chin, and a face that could never be forgiven, were it anything but funny. Above all this, Miss Walker has the common touch. (To which she would surely reply: "If its common...