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Sociologist William Kenkel ponders a science fiction proposition that the world may be so overcrowded 100 years from now that part of the population will have to hibernate for half of each year to reduce demands on resources. A color spread shows how the oft-decried weathering of classical statuary can actually improve its aesthetic impact. Poet-Novelist David Slavitt modernizes Virgil's Georgics in irreverent slang that gives it surprising contemporary relevance ("Okay, Maecenas, whatever you say; farming it is: hints for happier cornfields...
Frederick P. Kenkel of St. Louis, editor of the Central-Blatt & Social Justice (monthly) and Catholic Women's Union Bulletin, was awarded the Laetare Medal, given annually by Notre Dame University to that Catholic layman whose career gives evidence of "distinguished accomplishment for country and church...
...Vatican than any other U. S. citizen, Nicholas Brady was first in the U. S. to receive the title Ordine Supremo del Christo, a Catholic honor far more distinguished than the Laetare Medal, awarded last year to Alfred Emanuel Smith, and this year (last week) to Frederick P. Kenkel, St. Louis editor (see p. 40). The Brady donations to the Vatican were many, large, discreet. A constant visitor to his last bedside was Patrick Cardinal Hayes, who conducted the funeral service...
...Order of the Holy Sepulchre, reputedly founded by Charlemagne. Edward Hearn, past national president of the Knights of Columbus, now living in Italy, and Frederic Kenkel of St. Louis are U. S. holders...
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