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...sale in Manhattan "at a substantial reduction from their true worth" went the cobwebbed contents of the wine cellars of Inisfada, Long Island estate of the late Papal Duchess Genevieve Garvan Brady Macaulay. Items: 1901 Belmont Bourbon, 100 proof (case: $125); 1911 Veuve Clicquot champagne (case: $84); Jiminez Varela, Oloroso 1840 sherry (case: $58); Berry Bros. Prince's Port, 50 years in wood, 34 years in bottle (case: $48); Pre-Expulsion Green Chartreuse, 4 litres only (bottle: $1,25).* Burke's Irish Whiskey, 90 proof, believed laid down in 1901 (case...
...Minister of Commerce he chose Leon Barety, an exponent of closer relations with Italy. To the key post of permanent Secretary General of Foreign Affairs, since 1933 occupied by Alexis Leger ("greatest living diplomat"), Premier Reynaud appointed Frangois Charles-Roux, envoy to the Vatican, an expert on Papal foreign policy...
Sabra Holbrook, who went to Vassar ('34), believes that children should be heard. A young Boston social worker, she teamed up two and a half years ago with Byrnes MacDonald, onetime head of New York City's Crime Prevention Bureau and son of famed Utilitarian and Papal Marquis George MacDonald, to start Youth-builders, Inc. Its purpose: "to educate children for responsible citizenship in a democracy." From lecturing to children at school assemblies, Sabra Holbrook learned that they wanted a chance to talk themselves...
...scenes of mass Medievalism at the proclamation and crowning of the new Pope seem partly a revulsion from those articles he opened with a bang. At any rate they show what he, whom Henry James befriended long ago, can do when he tries. In between ceremonies he visits the Papal Observatory, Castel Gandolfo and the grave of Keats, muses about Michelangelo. The scarcely-hoped-for election of Cardinal Pacelli, that saintly cleric, assures him that a spiritual fountain is still there...
Osservatore Romano (Roman Observer) is the semiofficial evening paper of the Holy See. Printed behind the walls of little Vatican City (area: 108.7 acres; pop.: 1,025), it is accountable only to the Pope and the Papal Secretariate of State. Unlike all other Italian papers, its contents are not dictated by Fascist propagandists, but Mussolini allows it to circulate in Italy...