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...State Board of Education. When an outraged city official tried to ban the film on his own, the State Supreme Court reminded him that "the right to determine whether a picture is indecent, immoral, or sacrilegious is invested solely in the education department." Then, on January 7, Francis Cardinal Spellman issued a statement condemning the film and criticizing the state entering for passing it. Spellman also asked all "right-thinking citizens" for stricter censorship laws to prevent the showing of similar films. Members of various Catholic organizations began picketing the Paris Theatre, where "The Miracle" is showing, carrying indignant signs...
...time for holiday reading, Good Housekeeping proudly presented the opening chapters of Francis Cardinal Spellman's first novel, The Foundling, the story of a baby found in a Roman Catholic cathedral by a Protestant veteran of World War I. The cardinal, author of half-a-dozen books, announced that he had turned over his rights to the Roman Catholic New York Foundling Hospital...
...money to start it, Hecht formed Parents Institute Inc., and got a $325,000 grant from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial Fund by agreeing to assign control of his company to four universities (Yale, Columbia, Iowa and Minnesota). The odd partnership gave canny Publisher Hecht academic alliances which brought an impressive array of famous educators to Parents' masthead as "advisory editors." It also brought the schools a golden flow of income from Parents and a handful of new magazines. By 1949, when Publisher Hecht finally bought up control of Parents Institute, the colleges had already taken out substantial profits...
...Defects. Stokes devotes 14 pages to last year's controversy between Cardinal Spellman and Mrs. Roosevelt. He says that the Cardinal's final statement limiting the Roman Catholic request to "auxiliary aids" for parochial schools, e.g., bus transportation, free lunches, medical care, was "of epoch-making importance as far as church-state relations in the United States are concerned. It was the first time that the hierarchy, represented by one of its most prominent members . . . recognized publicly that direct aid for the support of parochial schools was . . . unconstitutional...
...left Rome with his band of 522 Holy Year pilgrims early this month, Cardinal Spellman was heard to exclaim: "Long live the Pope, long live Rome, and long live the American Express Com pany!" The cheer was gratefully received by American Express, which has already enjoyed a long life: it celebrated its 100th anniversary last week...