Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Several months ago she commissioned young Pittsburgh Sculptor George M. Koren to do a group for her garden. Sculptor Koren produced three earth-spurning, wind-blown nudes symbolizing Pittsburgh's three rivers: the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio. To his delight Three Rivers won the $2,000 Prix de Rome in sculpture last spring...
...what pleased the Prix de Rome jury did not entirely please Mrs. Hailman. Sculptor Keren's classic nudes, she thought, could not gracefully wear those Indian names. So last week before he departed for Rome young Sculptor Koren gave his figures something else to wear. In plaster he added breech clouts to each, crowned each with a feather headdress. Said...
...beginning of last week. He found Secretary of Commerce Roper, just back from Europe, telling everyone not to have the jitters, but anxious reports were flowing in from U. S. diplomats abroad-Wilbur Carr in Prague, Hugh Wilson in Berlin, Bill Bullitt in Paris, Bill Phillips in Rome, Joe Kennedy in London. After listening to Mr. Kennedy at length on the transatlantic telephone, Secretary of State Hull marched out of his office, across the street to the White House, to give a verbatim account of what Prime Minister Chamberlain had just told-and asked-Joe Kennedy...
...Italian-born U. S. citizen who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, died in Chicago in 1917 (TIME, Nov. 8, et ante-). Last month the Sacred Congregation of Rites decreed that Mother Cabrini be beatified and called "Blessed" in St. Peter's in Rome next November-the last step before full sainthood. Two miracles, performed since her death and by her intervention, have already been attested. If subsequently two more miracles are performed, Mother Cabrini may well become the first U. S. citizen-saint...
...Monsignor Natucci, his entourage and a few necessary witnesses beheld a second exhumation of Mother Cabrini. At some secret later time, the Devil's Advocate was to sever from the body a limb (which limb would not be revealed) - a "first-class" relic which he would take to Rome for use in the beatification ceremonies...