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...first time in history prelates flew to Rome to receive the red hat. The air travelers from the U.S.: New York's Francis J. Spellman, Detroit's Edward Mooney, Chicago's Samuel Stritch, 83-year-old John J. Glennon of St. Louis, Bishop Thomas Tien of Tsingtao, China. In a dither of pride, TWA officials billed the flight-three gleaming, four-motored planes, "the most distinguished mass-flight of passengers across the North Atlantic in aviation history...
...week Izvestia attacked the Pope's appointment of 32 new cardinals as "the Vatican's new orientation in reactionary circles of other countries [and] part of a great political maneuver intended to improve the Vatican's position in the international arena." It said Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, one of the 32, was carrying out the Vatican policy by "trying to persuade the American people to accept Franco...
...York's plump, tireless, globetrotting, auctorial* Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman learned of his elevation on the eve of going home to his father's for Christmas in Whitman, Mass. Asked if his appointment made this his happiest homecoming, he said: "The happiest was the day I came home ordained after five years away and said Mass for my father and mother." The onetime grocer's boy and champion horseshoe pitcher, now the able and beloved shepherd of Catholicism's richest archdiocese, is one of Pius XII's closest friends, served under him in Rome...
...great builder and money-raiser. Consecrated bishop in 1896, he is also dean of U.S. Catholic archbishops. He received the first news of his elevation before Sunday breakfast, when a local radio station phoned him. Then messages came from his old friends Baseball Fan Jim Farley and Archbishop Spellman, finally official notification from. Apostolic Delegate Cicognani. When he was sure, Cardinal-designate Glennon spoke like a loyal St. Louisan: "The Holy Father didn't forget St. Louis. . . . Our Catholic people show greater fervor, more unity of spirit, deeper interest in Catholic activities the world over. The Holy Father must...
...prolific writer of prose and verse, Archbishop Spellman is also one of the world's highest paid (he gives the money to charities): he has made $250,000 from his writing in the last three years. Last year Good Housekeeping paid him the highest price ever paid for a single poem...