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...Congo policy, scored a bull's eye himself by his tactful management of a potentially explosive meeting with Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, who came away proclaiming his "pleasure" over the encounter. Similarly impressed by the touring chief of government: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, who presented the Catholic-educated Adoula with a pair of cuff links bearing the Cardinal's coat of arms...
...though Elvis Presley at his prime had challenged Cardinal Spellman to a theology debate on NBC. For in England, mop-haired Adam Faith, 21, is the current king of rock, and last week he argued religion for half an hour on BBC-TV with the Most Rev. Frederick Donald Coggan, 52, Anglican Archbishop of York. Faith proved rather more than the archbishop had bargained...
Launching into his eleventh annual Christmas mission to the nation's cold war outposts, New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 72, regaled the troops with an account of his own frustrated military career. Back in 1918, His Eminence, then working on the archdiocesan newspaper in Boston, exuberantly bought naval chaplain's regalia only to be rejected by the Navy because he was too short. Back to the store went a determined Father Spellman to be fitted out in doughboy drab-whereupon he was foiled again by an archiepiscopal order freezing him in his Boston job. "I still...
...University and a monsignor. He lost the favor of Puerto Rico's Bishop James McManus when he spoke out against the bishop's order forbidding Catholics to vote for Governor Luis Muňoz Marin (TIME, Oct. 31. 1960). Yanked home by New York's Cardinal Spellman and assigned to Fordham University. Msgr. Illich wangled money and Fordham's sponsorship for a project that he had been hatching for years: to train a corps of men and women to serve the priest-poor church in Latin America by living lives of work with the people...
...soon as the committee announced its aims, the money began rolling in. Cardinal Spellman gave $5,000. William D. Pawley, onetime ambassador to Peru and Brazil, contributed $25,000. Los Angeles' John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, a Prohibition-era hoodlum who got kidnaped by other hoodlums in 1933 and knows all about ransoms sent...