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...Palm Sunday last week, Pope Pius XI accepted a plaited, elaborately decorated palm branch from a member of the Bresca family of San Remo, which since 1585 has clung to its perquisite of supplying palms to pontiffs. This week, when the rest of Christendom joyously concludes its 40-day Lenten fast, Rome and the Pope were to pass their quietest Easter in years. Because of Sanctions and European unrest, few tourists or pilgrims arrived in Rome for Holy Week. Because of the war in Ethiopia, the faithful who thronged St. Peter's Square on the off-chance the Holy...
...Lent," said Dr. Steele, "as now conceived, has come to be, for one group of Protestants, largely of Episcopalians to be sure, nothing but a joke; to another group, it is an intolerable bore." Dr. Steele calculated that in Philadelphia's Episcopal churches alone, extra Lenten service required 10,000 hours. Summed up Philadelphia's sharpest pulpiteer...
...there in time for last week's frolic. For robbing a second filling station on the outskirts of New Orleans and kidnapping its attendant, Funsters McCune & Rich were clapped into jail. Even so they could congratulate themselves on having taken part in a two-day pre-Lenten spree which, for sheer hell-raising, was unsurpassed since the fabulous days when the Louisville & Nashville Railroad used to send smiling black waiters to greet all incoming trains with great trays of free Sazerac cocktails...
...killing was in retribution for an article written by Taylor on the Penitentes and subsequently published in Today. Nevertheless, in recent years the Penitentes have been photographed, and on Good Friday many a tourist in New Mexico goes "Penitente-hunting," to be foiled only if the brothers conclude their Lenten observances in the dead of night or in the most remote districts...
President and Mrs. Conant are being entertained as house guests at the White House, and they were present at a dinner marking the resumption of official entertainment after the end of the Lenten season. Other House guests were Mr. and Mrs. Norman Davis...