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Placed in St. Dunstan's Church (now Anglican) in Canterbury, the head of Sir Thomas More became an object for Catholic veneration. Lately Anglicans have discussed turning it over to the Catholic Church, for the good reason that Sir Thomas, beatified in 1886, is soon to be a saint. In February Pope Pius XI approved his canonization, publicly welcomed the Blessed Thomas into the company of 140 Englishmen and Scotsmen who, the Church believes, were martyred for the Faith. This week at a semi-public consistory in Vatican City, Catholic bishops and archbishops are to give perfunctory approval...
...rocky isle of Saint Anastasia in the Black Sea is Bulgaria's Elba. One dawn last week in Sofia, before the hordes of milch goats were out on the streets, police burst into the homes of two Bulgar would-be Napoleons, dragged them from their beds, gave them each a few minutes to dress, bundled them off to Saint Anastasia...
Thirty years ago there were three U. S. sculptors known to every student: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, George Grey Barnard. The Grand Central Art Galleries last week gave the only survivor of the trio, 71-year-old George Grey Barnard, his first one-man show in 20 years. One glance around showed that George Grey Barnard is still one of the great sculptors...
Mary Moore's manner is consistently naive. When she had her audition with Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza last spring, she was so excited that she sang with a cough drop in her mouth. Then she made a novena to Saint Gabriel and Saint Paul. ("But I haven't said much about that because I don't want people to think I go to church just because I want things.'') She practices in a studio because at home she is afraid of annoying the neighbors. When she makes an exception she closes all the windows, stuffs...
...will of Saint Sun has definitely Communist leanings, enjoins China to cooperate with Soviet Russia and with Germany which Saint Sun expected to continue Socialist, not foreseeing Hitler. Last week famed Imperial German General Hans von Seeckt, he of the genial monocle and steel-trap brain, retired from China's service after putting Generalissimo Chiang's armies into the snappiest, most efficient shape ever attained by a Chinese force. Although von Seeckt leaves a junior German officer in China as his successor, Japan is strenuously pressing Premier Wang, who is also Foreign Minister, to clean out the Germans...