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Ever since Monsignor Joseph Charbonneau's sudden resignation last month (TIME, Feb. 20), Quebec has been wondering who would take his place in Montreal's red brick archbishop's palace. When Rome announced Charbonneau's successor last week, he turned out to be a man whom few had thought of: Monsignor Paul-Emile Léger, 45, a native Quebecker who had spent half of his religious career outside Canada. So unexpected was his appointment that on the day of the announcement only one French newspaper in Montreal could produce his photograph...
...second week, on July 24 and 25, "The Role of Private Associations in the Welfare State" will be considered by Clinton S. Golden, lecturer on Labor Problems at the Business School, Monsignor Fulton Sheen, economist and lawyer Donald Richberg, and Stanley H. Ruttenberg, director of Research and Education for the C.I.O...
...forums will present five topics. Speaking on the first subject, "The Welfare State," will be Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History; Edward S. Mason, professor of Economics; Lerner, a professor of Government at William College; Herter, and Monsignor Sheen...
...friends in the same easy posture he always managed on the concert stage, his lined face wearing its wistful smile. He felt, he said, "like I had just listened to the obituary of my artistic career." Perhaps the eulogies, by his longtime friends, Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn and Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, had been premature; but then, his had been the kind of life that had moved the New York Times last week to call Fritz Kreisler what in fact he was: "A great human being, one of our most magnificent contemporaries...
Considerably more worldly than otherworldly in approach, The Velvet Glove is neatly dotted with church figures (including Walter Hampden as a monsignor), pleasantly dusted with conventual and clerical badinage. It is the brighter for the deft warfare between John Williams and Grace George, who with all the airiness of a butterfly can impose the sting of a bee. But the play, a theatrical ladyfinger from the start, gets milder, thinner and crumblier as it proceeds...