Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factory hands with red kerchiefs and robed bishops and small-town women with babies in their arms. In many churches, Mass times were shifted so that the faithful would find it easier to reach the polls when they opened at 8. Priests read the Collect for the third Sunday after Easter...
...last-minute excitement Italians rushed to buy tickets in a nationwide pool on how many seats each party would get in the new Assembly. Manhattan's Daily News summed up the situation in a homey headline: "Italy Picks Uncles Today; Will It Be Sam or Joe?" All Sunday and half of Monday, Italians voted. The Reds had hoped that bad weather would keep many people from the polls (a small turnout would favor the Communists). The skies were grey; occasional showers and hailstorms pelted voters. The Christian Democrats, striving to get all the voters to the polls, provided ambulances...
...Last Sunday, while the Italians were voting, the Paris comrades were summoned to the Stade Buffalo, a sports stadium, to hear Maurice Thorez. To 25,000 of the faithful, Thorez announced the new line-"la main tendue" (the outstretched hand). Said he: "The party extends a fraternal hand ... to all democrats, to all socialists who do not wish to be the pawns of American millionaires, to all Catholics sincerely devoted to progress and freedom, to all men of the Resistance...
Steve Connolly of the Savoy is giving Higgenbotham time off from the Boston music place in order to encourage a jazz revival at Harvard. Should Sunday's concert indicate a real College following for such entertainment, Leverett will plan similar programs next year...
...regard to Sunday's elections in Italy, Mrs. Dean declared that the victory for the De Gasperi forces was only a reprieve from Communist control. "This gives us the chance to show this strong constructive program in action...