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...discoverer of Pekin Man, Pere Teilhard de Chardin, will join the expedition in Burma on December 1. With him two field trips will be made into the north above Myitkyina, which lies at the foot of the Chinese Alps, near the desolate wastes of Tibet...
...have Marquette's robe altered. Last week Dr. Nesbit's plans became public when Commissioner of Public Works Oscar Edwin Hewitt approved the project on condition that a competent sculptor could be found to do a historically accurate job at no cost to the city. Fortunately, Pere Marquette's Franciscan habit can easily be chiseled into resemblance of a Jesuit mantle without even moving the plaque. Sculptor Eugene Romeo will reduce the Franciscan hat to a skullcap, take the fullness out of the robe, remove the monk's cowl, incise a flat cincture about the waist...
Associated Press reported that Midamerica might be sold "within 48 hours." But days passed without any announcement of a sale. Cleveland newspapers placed Boston's crusty old Frederick Henry Prince, chairman of Armour & Co. and onetime president of the Van Sweringens' Pere Marquette Ry., at the head of a propositioning group which had withdrawn from the race. Other "overnight selections": a Manhattan syndicate represented by Brokers Young, Kolbe & Co.; a General Motors-Du Pont combine...
...body was taken to a nearby Maternity Hospital where Sisters of Mercy said their rosaries around it in a constant vigil until the next day when the corpse was interred at Pere Lachaise where tourists view it almost everyday...
...Society of Jesus, laid down detailed rules for "retreats" in his Spiritual Exercises, and St. Charles (Cardinal) Borromeo established retreat houses in his archdiocese of Milan. Since the 17th Century annual retreats have been customary and obligatory for all Catholic priests. Since 1882, when a French Jesuit named Pere Henry pioneered among workingmen to revive the custom of attending them, retreats have steadily gained favor among pious laymen...