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This week they banned "Forever Amber" in Providence. The Legion of Decency has condemned it. And in New York Francis Cardinal Spellman looks askance upon the multi-million dollar "historical" drama. 'Yet yesterday, in more or less unexpurgated fashion, Amber and her playmates opened a probably interminable run at a couple of the smaller Boston cinema emporia. This may be liberalism of a sort, or this may only be a sign of bluenose forgetfulness, but, sad to say, it doesn't represent any kind of progress in the matter of quality...
...Congress celebrated the centenary of the Roman Catholic diocese of Buffalo. Among the high ranking prelates from six countries were Peru's Cardinal Guevara and Brazil's Cardinal de Vasconcellos Motta-the first South American Cardinals ever to attend a U.S. Congress. New York's Cardinal Spellman told the Congress: "It is folly for us to deceive ourselves that we are at peace, for in truth we know naught for which we fought has come to fruit. The whole world and every human in it today face the greatest crisis in the history of civilization. . . . Man must...
...Manhattan, Francis Cardinal Spellman, who last July put out a fire in his bedroom singlehanded, was rewarded with: 1) appointment as honorary deputy fire chief, 2) honorary membership in the Uniformed Firemen's Association, the Uniformed Fire Officers' Association of Greater New York, and the International Association of Fire Fighters, 3) a shiny, new, silver fire extinguisher...
...doing a patriotic act in giving these people a chance to clarify their position. We're hoping that they are all good Catholics and we honestly pray that they'll answer the questions-bang! We wouldn't hesitate to ask these questions of Cardinal Spellman, so why should we hesitate to ask them of an ordinary one of the flock?" By last week, none of the people being quizzed had answered-bang! except George Addes. The C.W.V. did not publish Addes' answers, to which they had replied simply: "Your statement does not answer the questions...
Francis Cardinal Spellman, already an honorary Osage Indian Chief, made the grade with the Sioux, was inducted into the Oglala Tribe as Wambli Ohitika (Chief Brave Eagle...