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...promoters of candidacies). Some thought there was a better chance for a non-Italian Pope than at any time since the last one (in 1522). To them, these seemed papabile: Auguste Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, Joseph Cardinal Schulte of Cologne (both strongly anti-Communist), Pierre Cardinal Gerlier of Lyon, and bearded Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, Wartime French staff officer and for 30 years Vatican librarian...
Engaged. The Hon. Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, 26, niece of Queen Elizabeth of England; to Kenneth Harington, 27-year-old British socialite; for the second time; in London. Because "love in a cottage" would not be good enough for the Hon. Cecilia, Harington, then a junior assistant in the diplomatic corps, suddenly broke off their first engagement in 1937. Then he went to work for a metal corporation...
Gabriel Faure: Requiem (Chanteurs de Lyon and Trigintour Instrumental Lyonnais, E. Bourmauck, conducting, with Edouarde Commette, organist; Columbia: 10 sides). One of the profoundest works by a modern Frenchman. Beautifully performed...
...French Roman Catholic, in the recently published Secret of the Cure d'Ars.* Far from used up is the Cure of Ars: he was canonized only 14 years ago as St. Jean Baptiste Vianney. During most of his lifetime (1786-1859) the priest of an obscure village near Lyon, the Curé of Ars is today by papal command a model for parish priests the world over. Since it takes more than mere goodness to make a saint, M. Vianney (as Hagiographer Ghéon for brevity calls him) is easier to admire than imitate...
Back in April 1937, a peasant named Jean Gonon was doing his spring plowing on a farm not far from Lyon, when he uncovered a figure of Venus. Features and limbs were damaged, but otherwise the figure, a gentle drape about its hips, was in beautiful shape. Officials examined it, pronounced it authentic Greek, and Farmer Gonon made money exhibiting...