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...American Touch. Like few prelates, Spellman had a secular education in the public schools of Whitman, Mass. He delivered groceries, peddled papers, played baseball and was a trolley-car conductor at an age when most of the solemn little Italian boys who are now his contemporaries in the Church had already begun their education for the priesthood...
...Americanized the Vatican press department, for the first time issued papal documents to newsmen in all important languages. (This week, with typical American awareness of the press, he agreed to argue with Vatican authorities that over 100 secular reporters and photographers should be admitted to the Hall of Benedictions when Pope Pius presents the biretta to the new cardinals.) He also became the Vatican's first radio adviser, followed the Pope's first broadcast with an English translation...
...again, in appealing to the princes and nobles, he wrote: "We owe this revolt to none other on earth than to you . . . who are hardened to the present day and do not cease to rage against the Holy Gospel, and in your secular government do nothing else than tax and extort . . . until the poor and common man can no longer endure it. The sword is hanging over your heads, and yet you think that your seat in the saddle is secured. Such obdurate foolhardiness will cost you your neck. You must change and obey the Word...
...this year's promotion budget still to spend, 150,000 copies had been sent out and requests for more were pouring in. Far from looking askance at such salesmanship, ministers and chaplains were generally enthusiastic, felt that God's call usually needed some such secular amplifiers...
...than their predecessors did-and his grandchildren, who call him "Boo." He was an English professor at Williams College when he was hired for Exeter; but at Exeter he teaches no classes. He is casual, pleasant, hearty, but no backslapper. Summers at Martha's Vineyard he conducts secular Sunday services, reading favorite passages from Tom Sawyer...