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...already raised a major censorship rumpus. On the ground that its dialogue is too blue, the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency (which gave the play a "B" or "unobjectionable for adults" rating) has given the movie a "C" or "condemned" rating. Last week New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, in a letter to pastors of churches in his archdiocese, denounced the picture as "an occasion of sin" and as violating "standards of morality and decency." Cardinal Spellman urged Catholics to boycott it when it opens at two Manhattan theaters on July 9. The movie industry's self-censoring...
...former (1938-40) U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and sister of Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy; and Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., 37, assistant general manager of his father-in-law's Merchandise Mart in Chicago; in a ceremony performed by Francis Cardinal Spellman; in Manhattan...
Lady of the Gulf, New York's Cardinal Spellman consecrated him a bishop, in the first Roman Catholic consecration of a Negro ever to take place in the U.S. Whites and Negroes sat together during the ceremony and mingled in the yard outside...
...Among the 464 U.S. members of the Knights of Grace, the order's lowest category: Henry Ford II, Notre Dame Football Coach Frank Leahy, Francis Cardinal Spellman...
...never once saw a pin-up picture. But I saw hundreds of Bibles," was the comment of this religious leader who, like Cardinal Spellman, spent Christmas in Korea...