Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Antoine Pinay, a resolutely ordinary Frenchman, likes to think of France as a large-scale model of Saint-Chamond (pop. 15,000), his industrious little home town (its chief product: shoelaces) near Lyons. As often as he can, Pinay locks his desk in the Hotel Matignon, his official Paris residence, and slips away to look over the prosperous tannery he still owns in Saint-Chamond, and to chat with local shopkeepers and housewives about the problem on whose solution he has staked his political future: how to cut prices, hold back inflation. Recently, le petit Premier made a startling...
Last week, in the magazine Realties, Pinay reported on some experiments, conducted by a staff of economists, which confirmed his own findings at Saint-Chamond...
...been said of Pedro Cardinal Segura y Sáenz, Archbishop of Seville, that in the 15th century he would have been counted a saint. In the 20th, he is regarded as somewhat old-fashioned-not to say reactionary. Last week Cardinal Segura again expressed annoyance at Generalissimo Francisco Franco's government for allowing limited religious toleration of non-Catholics. In a pastoral letter, he took issue with the "bill of rights" which the Spanish government enacted in 1945. This recognizes Roman Catholicism as Spain's official religion, but allows non-Catholics to practice their faith in private...
...rosary clicker is as yet a primitive machine which must be worked by hand; the possibilities of electrifying its action, amplifying the clicks, inserting Hydra-Matic shift between the decades and possibly embellishing it with a cigar lighter modeled into the image of a favorite saint, these open wide if appalling vistas to the religious gadgeteer . . . The wedding of piety and jewelry . . . with St. Christopher money clips, St. Anthony key chains, Miraculous Medal bracelets, etc., may have something to recommend it, but we fail to see what...
Died. Dr. Donald Alfred Stauffer, 50, chairman of Princeton University's English department, George Eastman Professor of English (for the past year) at Oxford University, poet, Shakespearean scholar, critic and novelist (The Saint and the Hunchback); of a coronary thrombosis; in Oxford, England...