Word: marianism
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...Argentine government's running war of harassment against the Roman Catholic Church goes on, fueled by President Juan Peron's deep distaste for anything faintly resembling opposition. Last week the Interior Ministry banned a scheduled outdoor Mass and procession marking the end of the Marian Year. While a substitute indoor Mass was being celebrated at Buenos Aires' buff-colored cathedral, Peron and his top officials ostentatiously gathered at the airport to welcome Argentine Boxer Pascual Perez home from Japan, where he had won the flyweight (112-lb.) championship of the world. That same day, the Peron General...
...stint, brushed aside his M.C.'s good-nights and thank-yous, stayed on happily ad-libbing, reading, reciting and singing for the full hour that remained of the show. Asked by the harassed Allen if he would mind the interruption of a popular tune by Pianist Marian McPartland, the old man conceded gracefully-but with a qualification: "Just so she doesn't sing Teach Me Tonight...
...young girls of Catholic Action, in a ceremony closing the Marian Year, the Pope wrote that he was "firmly confident" that with God's help the Roman Catholic Church would conquer the forces of evil "in a time perhaps shorter than humanly foreseeable...
...When Presidential Secretary Steve Early kneed a New York Negro policeman in the groin a week before the 1940 elections, Ickes was set to work re-wooing the Negro vote. Harry Hopkins, said Ickes, called and "wanted me to get hold of Marian Anderson to have her attend a meeting and sing or issue a statement." Marian sang...
Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). With Marian Anderson, Sid Caesar, Bob Hope, Carl Sandburg, Martha Raye, Perry Como...