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Josephine Hull '99 is among the Cliffe alumna who will receive citations. Other recipients are: Cecilia P. Gaposchkin '25, Phillips astronomer at Harvard; Doris z Stone '30, associate in Anthropology at Tulane University; Cornelia J. Cannon '99, teacher and author; and Marian Sharkey Doyle '14, past vice president of the League of women Voters and a past member of the National Loyalty review Board...
...this action at the end of the Marian Year, Pius XII strengthened the ancient Marian movement, which is spreading with new vigor among Catholics. The theological foundations of Mary-veneration were laid in the first century A.D. In the Catacombs, Rome's persecuted Christians painted pictures of the Virgin, emphasizing her sanctity. Thereafter, a long line of saints-among them Irenaeus, Ambrose, Jerome and Augustine-laid stress on her sinlessness. In a poem, St. Ephrem (300-379) had Mary addressing God: "Let Heaven uphold me in its embrace, because I am more honored than it. Heaven is only your...
From the time Contralto Marian Anderson first realized that she had a remarkable voice, she wanted to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. In those days, hiring a Negro artist was unthinkable at the Met. She went on the concert stage instead, and became one of the great recitalists of all time. But last week, fiftyish and famous as ever,* she sat down with the Met's General Manager Rudolf Bing and signed up for a starring role this winter...
Three years ago, Manager Bing had hired Dancer Janet Collins to be his prima ballerina, making her the first Negro artist on the Met roster in any capacity. He expects to employ other Negro singers if they "are right for the roles." Said Marian Anderson, as usual referring to herself with the modest impersonal pronoun: "Now one is speechless." Would her place in Met history be comparable to Jackie Robinson's in baseball? "One hopes so," she said. "It would be a matter of pride...
...plea for more rational, comfortable dress among nuns, the new habit features an oxford grey skirt (slightly flared and coming just below the knee), a loose box jacket, a white Peter Pan-collared blouse, a black pillbox hat, black leather pumps with medium heels, and nylons. Said Postulant Marian Mraz, 25, modeling the new outfit: "We'll be right up to date...