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Christopher Columbus' grandson was made a duke by Roman Emperor Charles V, who was also King of Spain. Last week the Red Militia of Madrid got their hands on Don Cristobal Colon y Aguilera, 14th Duke of Veragua, 16th in descent from the Discoverer of America and breeder on his estates of some of the best fighting bulls in Spain. In 1893 the Duke, then a lad in short pants, was taken to see Chicago's Columbian Exposition. He never again visited the U. S. and refusing a U. S. offer of $428,000 for relics...
Strong objection to cremation on religious grounds comes from Orthodox Jews. The Roman Catholic Church also objects to cremation. Protestant denominations generally do not object. The Unitarian Church, however, is the only one which positively approves. Reads its new service book: "The growing practice of cremation is to be commended, especially in large cities. Not infrequently cremation takes place in advance of the funeral service. This usage helps to minimize the physical aspect of death and to centre the attention upon the spiritual message of the service." Dr. Yon Ogden Vogt of Chicago's First Unitarian Church, which sells...
...months ago a pretty, 25-year-old Roman Catholic nun named Manuela Mary Adamic, serving in a hospital at Dedinje, Yugoslavia, broke her religious vows, ran away, married a patient she had nursed through a long illness. In Manhattan her nervous, energetic, expatriate brother, Louis Adamic, author of two books on the sturdy Adamic family, observed, "She asks me, naively, to forgive her for the step. . . . She is one of the finest and most beautiful girls that ever lived. ... A man who could make her escape after five years must have strength.'' Thus U. S. newsreaders learned...
...torch of learning burning brightly in their distant wilderness. That wilderness with which the founders had to contend has now been tamed. But we are threatened by another wilderness. We are threatened by a mental confusion such as the world has not seen since the last of the Roman legionaries were recalled from the borders of the Rhine. And Harvard, for all we know, may once again become a sort of intellectual stockade in the heart of a jungle of partisanship and greed...
...Cezannes Collector Barnes brought back with him last week were the 74th and 75th to be added to the Barnes Foundation, which includes the largest collection of Cezannes in the world. Few U. S. citizens have had a chance to see them, for the Greco-Roman temple outside Philadelphia that houses the Barnes Foundation is surrounded by an eight-foot iron fence, guarded by savage dogs. Only specially invited guests may view his pictures, and not a few of them have been bodily ejected from the building when their appreciation of what they were shown did not seem...