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...bishop ever to take place in St. Peter's in Rome. In full pontificals the Cardinal sat solemnly on a faldstool before the altar. Before him, bowing low in the cope, biretta and white stole of a priest, was Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman, 43, onetime grocer's boy and sandlot baseball player in Whitman, Mass., named last month by the Holy See to be Auxiliary Bishop of Boston (TIME, Aug. 15). In three great tribunes sat the entire Vatican diplomatic corps and many another official including Boston's Fire Commissioner Edward F. McLaughlin...
...Philadelphia, Wallace F. Mitchell, unemployed machinist, stole a bottle of milk from Grocer Bernard Beese. Grocer Beese shot & killed Machinist Mitchell. Widow Mitchell doubted that her husband had stolen the milk, said he had left the house to pick up cigaret stubs...
...Whitman, Mass. Last week this hope was partly realized. Ap pointed to be titular Bishop of Sila and Auxiliary Bishop of Boston was Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman, for the past seven years the foremost U. S. prelate at the Vatican. Born 43 years ago the son of a Whitman grocer, "Frank" Spellman is recalled by at least one person - a Whitman taxicab driver - as an able baseball player. He went to Whitman High School, was graduated from Fordham University in 1911. The next five years he spent in the North American College in Rome, to which he was appointed...
...idealized combination of many Cape Cod fisherfolk. On either side of Christ's dory are His 27 listeners, who posed first in a group, then separately in Artist Stallknecht's studio. At the oars of the dory are two fishermen, deacons in the church. Prominently featured are Grocer L. Sidney Atwood, president of the church association, Insurance Man Augustus Bearse, vice president, and Restaurant Keeper Mrs. Emma Howes, clerk. Others: the Chatham electrician, auto dealer, carpenter, landscape gardener and their wives & children, some of them descendants of founders of Old Congregational Church...
...such peaceful lives. "I would have given up everything I had managed, spiritually and socially, to gather in more than 50 years to be any one of the characteristic men of Tegernsee, strong and erect, my throat filled with music." He thought he could best fit in as a grocer in Wiessee, "sleep deeply all night in the room above my produce and ... in the early morning, polish the apples and arrange fresh greens...