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...Roman Catholic best known to most U.S. citizens is Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen. His annual broadcasts of Lenten sermons have long been among the most popular on the air, one of his books, Peace of Soul, was a notable bestseller in 1949, and the many conversions over which he has presided have included such well-known people as Columnist Heywood Broun, Communist Louis Budenz, Industrialist Henry Ford II and Author Clare Boothe Luce...
Last week, at 56, Fulton Sheen joined the 180 bishops and archbishops of the U.S. hierarchy. His new title: titular Bishop of Caesariana and Auxiliary to New York's Cardinal Archbishop Spellman. In addition to his present duties as national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith (the world missionary society of which the Pope himself is the head), he will become one of four auxiliaries assisting Cardinal Spellman in the work of the richest Catholic diocese in the world...
...merciless novel about the rise of a thoroughgoing heel in Manhattan's garment center. In the film, the heel has been transformed into a hellcat (Susan Hayward), still greedy and pushy, but with as much talent as guile, a conscience to catch up with her treacheries, and the sheen of Fifth Avenue instead of the flashiness of Seventh...
Next day, the Kansas City Star (circ. 364,315), which also ran the Sheen interview, did a similar job of checking up. It counted 1,535 inches of news, found only 157 inches devoted to crime and violence...
Commented the Times: "We agree with Msgr. Sheen's statement that 'there is great goodness in the world,' but the record seems to refute his assertion that it is 'unsung and unheralded...