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Pope Pius XII sent Apostolic Delegate Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. President Roosevelt sent Vice President Henry Agard Wallace. Heading the gowned procession that marched across Edwards Parade and up the broad stone steps of Gothic Keating Hall was Professor Albert Feuillerat of the University of Paris (founded early 12th Century). Five Catholic bishops in traditional purple robes brought up the rear. Amid the faint rumble of trolley cars that reached the 70-acre campus, Fordham's President Robert Ignatius Gannon faced his distinguished assemblage and exclaimed happily: "John Hughes [Fordham's founder, later New York's first Catholic...
...orders of the State Department, they let fall these items of conditions inside Germany: ^ British bombing has been effective, not only in Hamburg but in Cologne. Thousands of women and children have been removed from Hamburg; its harbor has been almost cleared of shipping. In Cologne the great Gothic cathedral stands over a shambles. The center of the city is in ruins, and a terrified populace huddles nightly in a huge shelter under the public square...
...Gothic hall of the Wawel, Cracow's royal palace, was made into a Bierstube, and the apartment of Queen Jadwiga (1371-1399) became...
Last week Winston Churchill revealed one of his post-war aims. Answering a question in Parliament (whose meeting-place is now secret), he told how he expected to restore that Victorian-Gothic pincushion, the House of Commons, whose interior was gutted by seven Nazi bombs (TIME, May 19). Declared the Prime Minister: "I cannot conceive that anyone would wish to make the slightest structural alteration in the House of Commons other than perhaps some improvement in the system of ventilation or some minor readjustments for accommodation in the galleries, not affecting the size, shape and character of the building...
Billows of acrid smoke pouring from the "triangular slice of Gothic whimsey" on Mount Auburn Street, more commonly known as "the Lampoon's architectural miscarriage" nauseated passers-by and unfortunate residents of Adams House late last night...