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...Toulouse, France, Jules Cardinal Saliège's Lenten letter to his flock began: "You have often heard it said, or have read, that Christian civilization must be saved. I say it cannot be saved, for it does not exist. We must create a Christian civilization...
Moviegoers didn't exactly stampede the nation's box offices during the last couple of months. Local theatermen, according to Variety, offered various explanations for the slump. First there was the Lenten lull. After Easter, the weather was too warm in some parts of the country-and in other parts too rainy or too cold. Manhattan was too busy with its vaccinations. Some exhibitors just admitted that the movies they were offering were nothing to stampede about...
Into Boston harbor last week came 29 trawlers jampacked with two million pounds of fish for the Lenten trade. But when the fish was put up for sale in the smoke-filled Fish Exchange, only 118,000 lbs. were sold. It was not for lack of bidders. As auctioneers went through their babble ("Haddock on the Maine . . . I'm offered seven . . . seventy-five . . . seven-eighty . . .all done? . . . all done"), haddock finally reached a top bid of 8½?. But it was still half a cent below the minimum price unofficially set by the A.F.L. Atlantic Fishermen's Union...
...this week opened, the Lenten season demand for fresh fish forced the price of haddock above the union's minimum, brought about a temporary truce between the fishermen and boat-owners. But much of last week's unsold catch was condemned by the state health inspector, sold for fish meal and fertilizer. Price...
Married. The Hon. Felicity Anne. Wavell, 25, second daughter of Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, and Captain Peter Maitland Longmore, 25; in a lavish Lenten ceremony attended by eight maharajas, nine members of the Interim Government; on the day of the announcement of Viscount Wavell's replacement by Viscount Mountbatten (see FOREIGN NEWS); in New Delhi...