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...Army must have done it. The Great Di Maggio, who once made news if he showed up for any spring hitting at all, hadn't changed much physically. The sheen of his black hair was flecked with grey; his weight (a prewar 205) was down to 190. But his disposition, like his ulcers, was better. He still knew that he was the greatest baseball player alive, but now he talked as if he were only as good in his business as many others are in theirs. He no longer called himself the "Great Di Maggio," now resented conceit...
...Golden-voiced Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, U.S. Catholicism's famed proselyter, pulls 3.000 to 6,000 letters a Sunday but is on the air only four months of the year...
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto In E Minor (Nathan Milstein and the Phil harmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). Milstein 's virtuosity gives added sheen to melodic Mendelssohn music. Performance: good...
...priest who had brought Budenz home was Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen. Lean, dark and handsome Father Sheen is associate professor of philosophy at Washington's Catholic University. He is also probably America's best-known priest, with an audience of millions for his Sunday preaching on NBC's Catholic Hour and a fan mail of 3,000 to 6,000 letters a Sunday. Among his other noted proselytes: the late Heywood Broun, politico Horace A. Mann, motor dynast Henry Ford...
Said Monsignor Sheen: "I hate Communism, but I love Communists...