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Talk with Angels. In his early, field-service days, Dr. Dyer fought bubonic plague in Louisiana and Texas, pellagra in South Carolina, and World War I's influenza in Massachusetts. He standardized scarlet fever toxin and antitoxin, which took much of the panic out of a once-dreaded disease. Dr. Dyer doubts that his preparations are ever used nowadays, for antibiotics have almost finished the job he started...
...veneration from her home town of Nettuno, near the Anzio beachhead of World War II. The ceremony had to be moved out of the basilica into St. Peter's Square because of the great crowds-estimated by the Vatican radio at 500,000. Pope Pius XII, robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter of a mile. Calling upon the world to follow the example of "the little sweet Martyr of Purity," he asked...
Four floors below, Congressman Lodge -a conservative Republican-greeted his well-wishers like a matinee idol, which in tact he had once been. Before entering politics he had appeared in 18 movies, was Marlene Dietrich's leading man in a 1934 picture called The Scarlet Empress. Beside him stood his pretty, Italian-born wife, Francesca Braggiotti Lodge, onetime dancer, whose singing of Italian songs in Bridgeport's Italian quarter had helped her husband in his races for Congress...
...hail would have shattered a glass-roofed truck. The closed truck was best. Maurizio Ravelli, who looks after the reliquary, had built into the truck a triple floor with springs and delicate silver pistons to ease the passage of the reliquary. Driven at 15 m.p.h. over roads strewn with scarlet poppy petals between rows of kneeling, weeping, praying people, the reliquary made its journey to Rome...
...Protestant churches] and holds that marriages in these churches are sacramental, while in certain others they are of no effect. Certain of the Protestant churches it thus includes make exactly the same classification. The various denominations whom these churches exclude, in turn, look upon the Catholic Church as the Scarlet Woman of Babylon and consider it an utter perversion of Christianity. "Where are we going to draw the line? If we admit 'Christianity' to a privileged position, how do we define it? ... Balancing, say, Vermont against New 'Mex ico we can see that legally, state by state...