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...Mont last week lost its highest-rated program, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's Life Is Worth Living. This fall the show will be carried by ABC on its full radio network and by 117 live ABC-TV stations. Sol A. Rosenblatt, attorney for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, a charitable organization that receives all the commercial fees paid to Bishop Sheen, said the switch was being made because "the financial emoluments are so much larger, and the coverage is better." The proposed new time, 8 p.m. on Thursdays, will compete with NBC's top-ranked...
...March crept out, the Cambridge Department of Public Works crept into one of the last citadels of free parking around the Square: Appian Way, by Radcilffe's Longfellow Hall, Dully glistening with their fresh silver sheen, new parking motors await the return of automobiles...
...Baltimore, viewers of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's Life Is Worth Living got a jolt when the bishop asked the rhetorical question: "Will the Communists find Christ on the Cross?" and, without any change in the picture, a soprano voice answered loud and clear: "Of course not!" Embarrassed executives of station WAAM explained that a technician had pulled a switch at the wrong moment, cutting off the audio portion of the bishop's Du Mont show and letting in a vagrant sentence from Corliss Archer...
...exists at all. "No matter what we do, we will not compete successfully with Jackie Gleason for the audience out there, not even if we give away free trips to Palestine or old church pews for use as lawn benches. The mystical hope that some Protestant equivalent of Bishop Sheen will arise to speak for us to the vast missions is an unworthy delusion. In the first place, any such voice would be out of keeping with the Protestant emphasis on the necessity that each individual find his faith for himself . . . In the second place, Bishop Sheen speaks...
...dropped from sight 400 years after his death. Famed in his day as one of Italy's greatest masters of mathematical perspective, Piero trademarked his work with his magnificent handling of translucent atmosphere, and his ability to use form and light to give flesh tones an almost silver sheen. It took the followers of Cézanne, with their taste for color and geometric form, to start Piero's comeback; other modernists, in rebellion against the 19th century love of the elaborate and ornate, were impressed by the simplicity and truthfulness of Piero's peasant types...