Word: hat
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...Hat-Check...
Hinsley was England's only Cardinal. There are two others in the British Empire: MacRory of Ireland; Villeneuve of Quebec. Hinsley's death reduced the College of Cardinals (maximum 70) to an almost unprecedented low (49). Reason: the war has prevented many possible recipients of the red hat from traveling to the Vatican. Sometimes the Pope creates a Cardinal in petto (in the breast, i.e., he keeps it a secret until he wishes to announce it). Many American Catholics hope that Pius XII may have created New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman a Cardinal in petto...
...however, Hinsley got the red hat. "I have been called a clothes peg," he said, "but I have had to submit to it because this is settled by authority, and not by my choice or liking." When he returned from the Vatican in his red Cardinal's robes, Londoners gave him an ovation, strewed flowers in his path...
...parking lot if it doesn't watch out." For months the enterprise squeaked through by selling two tickets for the price of one-mostly to high-school-age smirkers. In January it was set to close, but was taken over by a saloonkeeper and a hat-check man who abandoned the play's haphazard promotion for a frontal attack featuring sex. Lately, with $3,800 expenses, the play has raked in $10,000 a week, and a road company is being rehearsed. Its destination: war-busy, well-heeled Detroit...
...Metropolitan performances he has bought himself a home in Monroe, N.Y., where, with German methodicalness, he raises potatoes and experimental cherry bushes. For relaxation he climbs the surrounding hills with his tough-looking German boxer, hunts and fishes in Tyrolean knee breeches and a feathered hat...