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Some 41 years ago Evangelist Ufford, in the leafy village square of Westwood, Mass., was exhorting the villagers with much gusto yet with some despair, for on the outskirts of the throng he noted many youths and maidens giggling and cutting up. How frail are their ties to the Church, reflected the young Methodist, even as he labored and prayed. They were drifting. . . sinking. . . . Phrases floated across his thoughts, took form. Later, at home, in half an hour he composed his hymn, which has been translated into nearly all major languages. Once in a tour of the world, he dramatically...
...Respighi and the U.S. debut of a certain English nightingale in the third movement. For Respighi disdained any nightingale effect that might be obtained from strings or woodwinds, used a gramophone record made by a real birdToscanini as to make the readings of lesser men seem imitative and frail; and an audience that had jabbered its way into the hall went home stilled and critics went out fumbling for words...
Monday afternoon three of the nominees (Cardinal Cerretti must stay watchfully in Paris to guard the frail French-Vatican relations) were summoned to the Pope's apartments. In the antechamber a sottoguardaroba handed each his scarlet zucchetto. Capped they proceeded into the presence of His Holiness who placed on each his scarlet biretta-the four-cornered, pinched-top cap-then heard their oaths to defend conscientiously the papal bulls concerning nonalienation of the possessions of the Roman Church, nepotism, papal elections, and cardinalitial dignity. Last May 30, two Spanish prelates were elevated to the scarlet: Eustachio Ilundain y Esteban...
Such folks attended last week's ceremony, and at the skirts of the crowd they formed stood a frail little man whom only a news reporter or two recognized and addressed as Jean LeRoy...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Knox Lansdowne, 74, mother of the late Commander Zachary Lansdowne of the Shenandoah; at Greenville, Ohio, of chronic heart trouble and gradual nervous collapse. Slight and frail, weighing not more than 80 pounds, Mrs. Lansdowne collapsed on the afternoon of Sept. 3, when two old neighbors broke the news to her of the Shenandoah disaster that morning...