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...edition of the writings of the early Church Fathers-including a number of texts never available in English. The edition will include major works of such early molders of Christian doctrine as Tertullian, Origen, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine and Chrysostom, down to Gregory the Great of the 6th Century. The seven-year task will be guided by Dr. Ludwig Schopp, editor and publisher of Traditio, an annual volume of learned essays, who has enlisted the aid of most U.S. Catholic authorities on the language, history and theology of the early Church...
Maurice Chevalier, longtime darling of Paris music halls, seven-year darling of Hollywood (1928-35), said he was coming to Broadway in February. He had just been okayed (for the third time) as a French patriot. Embraced by the underground in 1944, cleared as a collaborationist by the Government last September, he was now cleared by the National Committee of the Theatrical Purge...
Last week, Owner Perini stole off to St. Louis, and quietly swung baseball's biggest deal in four years: for one mediocre pitcher and an estimated $50,000 in cash, he bought the Cardinals' temperamental fork-bailer Morton Cooper (his seven-year big-league record: 106 won, 60 lost). That ended Cooper's six-week salary squabble with the penny-pinching Cardinals, and it might even boost the Braves into the first division for the first time in eleven years...
Their surprise choice for the $50,000-a-year, seven-year job: Senator Albert ("Happy") Chandler...
...native England in 1941, went to court with charges that Hollywood Producer David Selznick was attempting to prevent her appearing in a London stage play with her cinematinee-idol husband, Laurence Olivier. Selznick likened Miss Leigh to an "exotic plant" which must be wisely exposed, said that her seven-year contract with him still had a year to run, felt that he had already been overgenerous, as her 1941 trip was "a three-months' leave" which had now stretched to more than three years. Cinemactress Leigh, who admitted that she would be subject to Britain's labor draft...