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...Holiness the Pope, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of Vatican City, Servant of the Servants...
...visited Nanking shortly after the 1932 Shanghai war, they were struck by the loveliness of an unusually large garden behind a modest home near the tomb of Sun Yatsen. Of an old man with a flowing beard, sauntering in the garden, they asked admittance. "Sure, come in," said the patriarch. The tour over, one of the newsmen slipped a dollar bill into the old man's pocket. "No thank you, gentlemen," said Lin Sen. "You are quite welcome to visit my modest home...
...Catholics sometimes forget that His Holiness the Pope, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Sovereign of Vatican City, and Servant of the Servants of God, is also the Bishop of Rome. Last week the Bishop of Rome had a local problem on his hands: a "serious shortage" of priests in the Eternal City. Reason: twelve of Rome's some 600 priests died last year, only six new ones were ordained. Sadly the Bishop of Rome ordered several of the city...
...Oberon Overture, Ureli Corelli Hill would hardly have recognized his orchestra. Its budget had grown to $750,000 a year. Its chief conductors rated salaries of $50,000 a season and up. Oldest symphony orchestra in the U.S., third oldest in the world,† the Philharmonic was now the patriarch of some 225 other U.S. orchestras. So stable a feature of Manhattan had the Philharmonic become that only twice in a century had its concerts been postponed: once on the death of Abraham Lincoln, again on the death of Conductor Anton Seidl. One Philharmonic feature would still be familiar...
Meanwhile the average Mormon, who is fighting as hard for his country as anybody else, might draw what comfort he could from the fact that his church once more (after a ten-year lapse) has a Presiding Patriarch. For this sole Mormon hereditary position the conference last week chose Joseph F. Smith, great-grandson of Founder Joseph Smith's brother Hyrum, who was killed by the same Illinois mob that lynched Joseph in 1844.* The new patriarch is 43, father of five, heads the University of Utah's phonetic department and is one of the best amateur actors...