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...Sunday in 1905, two young Sorbonne students climbed hand in hand up the long, steep stairs to Paris' Sacré Coeur. They knocked at a door which was opened by a strange, shabby old man with a walrus mustache. Young Protestant Jacques Maritain and his Jewish wife Rai'ssa had come to old Roman Catholic Leon Bloy for help. The Maritains were heavyhearted with questions, and they believed that Bloy, the outcast scourge of complacent Christianity (TIME, April 14, 1947), might have some answers...
Born. To George Howard Earle, 56, stocky, outspoken ex-Governor of Pennsylvania, ex-U.S. Minister to Austria and Bulgaria, and second wife Jacqueline Marthe Jermine Sacré Earle, 25, brunette Belgian beauty whom he married in Turkey two years ago: a daughter (her first child, his fifth); in Philadelphia. Name: Jacqueline. Weight...
...Canadiens were tied with the New York Rangers, 0-0. During a melee around the Ranger cage, in slid the puck. But the goal was disallowed; the referee had blown his siffleur (whistle). "Sacré maudit!" (damn it all) groaned the fans, holding their heads in agony. Cried one to the referee: "Gros jambon, tu pues!" (you big ham, you stink...
Last week they caught a hitherto respected layman-gentle, white-mustached Henri Gotti, beadle of Sacré Coeur, who wore his plumed hat and carried his massive staff in parish processions. Each night, with francs filched from the almsbox, M. Gotti had slipped off to such fleshpots as the Moulin Rouge and Bal Tabarin. "Poor Gotti!" said worldly-wise parishioners. "Montmartre was too near the Sacré Coeur...
...Union sacrèe of France's Government and her Communists was symbolized by an anonymous Catholic priest, who closed the four-day session by playing his new composition: a melodic blend of the Marseillaise and the Internationale...