Word: orbis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Works. "For several months," Hedda casually announced urbi et orbi one day last spring, "I have been plugging a young singer named Doris Day, who, I believed, had fine talent. . . . Mike Curtiz tested her for the lead in Romance in High C. She'd never been before a camera previously, but Mike told me her test was sensational. Even so, the studio wanted a star name-Mary Martin, Lauren Bacall, or Ginny Simms-for the role, but Mike held out for Doris...
Because of the war, Pope Pius XII last week let it be known he would not celebrate the usual elaborate Easter Mass in St. Peter's, ending with a blessing urbi et orbi, "to the city and the world." To 3,000 pilgrims the Holy Father expressed his hope "that the nations in conflict today may as soon as possible sheathe their swords and attain a sure peace based on justice...