Word: sainte
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Died. Sisley Huddleston, 69, author (In My Time, With The Marshal) and for nearly 20 years between World Wars I and II European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor; of a heart attack; in Saint-Pierre-d'Autils, France. Throughout the Occupation he stayed in France, published The Myth of Liberty, an attack on the democracies, and won French citizenship from Vichyite Marshal Henri Pétain. In 1944, after the Normandy landing, he was arrested but subsequently released by Free French forces...
Early Birds. In Bourg-Saint-Andéol, France, Mayor Pierre Tiéri sternly advised local fishermen that theirs was "an agreeable pastime, but you are absolutely forbidden to tear up paving in the streets in order to search for worms...
...proud papa recounting the feats of his offspring, the Communist organ L'Humanité* ticked off the high spots of 20 days of anti-American activity in France. Item: at Revel, in Haute-Garonne, "300 peasants tore up surveyors' markers at a new military airbase." Item: at Saint-Quentin, "youth made a fire of joy out of the tracts and brochures of the [American] occupation." Item: at Toulouse, "street parades against the arrival of munitions . . . from across the Atlantic...
...This is probably the most nervous generation of Americans who ever lived. The patron saint of the Irish is St. Patrick; of the English, St. George. The patron saint of Americans is St. Vitus . . . The American people are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon . . . That's a sad situation." -Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church...
Despite this orthodoxy, the Dominicans have had little luck getting him canonized as a saint of the church, although they have been trying for two centuries. These days, said a Vatican 'spokesman last week, "The case of Savonarola is considered by the church a sad episode . . . Saints are to be admired and imitated by the faithful for possession of the seven virtues-faith, hope, charity, justice, fortitude, prudence and temperance. Savonarola can hardly be said to have possessed the last...