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President Eisenhower to veto the natural-gas bill (TIME, Feb. 20). On the plea that South Dakota needs: 1) a farmer in the Senate, and 2) a return to high supports. Groton Farmer Ken Holum, 40, got the Democratic nomination over Mitchell Municipal Judge Merton Tice, 46, by an almost two-to-one vote. Republicans predicted (probably correctly) that Francis Case would be the winner...
...Pius XII's birthday blessings, shouting "Viva il Papa!" and "Auguri!" (best wishes). There were presents, too, fit for a Pope: a volume chronicling the Pontiff's achievements in chapters titled "The Pope as Writer," "The Pope as Jurist," "The Pope of the Virgin Mary" (by Thomas Merton), "The Pope's Works for Peace," etc.; another book dedicated to him by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences titled Galileo, Unjustly Condemned; a Steuben glass cup from U.S. Cardinal Spellman...
...magazine was planned four years ago by Editor Rice and Roving Editor Robert Lax, 35. Rice and Lax, a convert to Catholicism, had been talking religion since their student days at Columbia-where Rice was the godfather of another Manhattan convert, Thomas (The Seven Storey Mountain) Merton. Working with Peter J. McDonnell, a printing salesman and now Jubilee's advertising manager, they financed their project by offering one share of stock with each $5-a-year subscription. When they had a slim $60,000 to go on, they put out their first issue. Now Jubilee has Editor Rice...
Upon graduating from Harvard in 1938, Smith was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford. He became an assistant professor of English at Princeton...
...Visiting Gethsemani Abbey this fall, I spent two hours on the guest house roof watching the Trappists (Father Merton included) "employing energies in direct relation to the needs of the hour," the needs being to harvest a crop of tomatoes. These monks, who would put any union-scale group of laborers (or choir Benedictines) to shame with the zeal of their manual labor, would certainly be startled to hear that to become Trappists they had first to be members of an elite...