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Alphonse Raymond Dochez, bacteriologist (scarlet fever serum...
Overture. This 28th Congress opened officially June 20. But the preceding Thursday the scarlet "Cardinals' Train" (TIME, June 21) bearing Cardinal Banzano, Cardinal Hayes and seven foreign cardinals had reached Chicago. (Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia traveled alone, joined them the next day. Cardinal O'Connell of Boston, who took the boat trip from Buffalo, arrived Sunday afternoon.) Friday night Governor Small of Illinois, Mayor Dever of Chicago and Secretary of Labor Davis whom President Coolidge has sent welcomed all the prelates at a great gathering in the Coliseum...
...bowers of flowers?pink hydrangeas, pink roses, larkspur, peonies, ferns, spruce. Disjecta membra of the Marine Band, in three sections of the building, played the wedding march from Tannhauser, as the bride and bridegroom entered and crossed the Aztec Garden and passed the reflecting pool on a carpet of scarlet velvet...
...bannered folk, Dominican friars in their white cassocks, Trapist and Capuchin monks in brown, Benedictines and Jesuits in black?then the resplendent, gold-draped bishops and archbishops. Homage and glory mount as the procession nears its end. Fifteen cardinals are coming, vanguard to the Host behind. Papal guards in scarlet, blue and yellow uniforms follow. Then comes, under a canopy of gold and surrounded by censor-bearing acolytes, the Blessed Sacrament. It is inclosed in its golden ostensorium, its jeweled monstrance. No less a personage may carry it than His Eminence, Giovanni Cardinal Bonzano, the legate of the Pope...
...Republic of Santa Barbara (roughly, South America), where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There is bloodletting for the sake of seeing an ivory floor incarnadined. The palace is yellow; the guards wear scarlet; Santa Barbarian males are tall, red-golden of hue and often go nearly naked. There are some 400 pages of highly involved events, followed by much sacking and a fierce conflagration, and the hero sails away having accomplished nothing more than the reader's unmitigated excitement. Author Masefield, famed...