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...official" status of Catholic papers confuses not only non-Catholics but many of the faithful themselves. In the view of Catholic critics, some hotly partisan Catholic papers, e.g., Brooklyn's right-wing Tablet (circ. 119,893), seem content to let readers believe-as many do-that editorial tributes to Joe McCarthy and Senator Jenner of Indiana are church-inspired...
...Commies. I have been called brutal, blasphemous, unscrupulous and monstrous, for publicly defending the right of laymen to run magazines like Commonweal. Because of my job, they have even called me a perverter of the minds of Catholic children." At the farthest poles are Brooklyn's Tablet and Manhattan's radical-pacifist Catholic Worker. When she was asked where the two papers might come together, the Worker's Publisher Dorothy Day replied: "Only at the Lord's table." Items...
...importance of the aspirin-steroid [hormone] tablet has been exaggerated way out of proportion," said Dr. Joseph J. Bunim, clinical director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. "Even though the hormone aspirin pills are a prescription drug, there is a real danger that the patient will get too much of them and knock out his adrenal glands. In many instances the patient won't realize he is not taking ordinary aspirin. In others he will enjoy the lift he gets from them and take more and more. In still others, the physician will respond...
According to the article, a tablet had been unearthed at Washington which said, "To ye Glory of Almighty God/Here Estabd ye Kent Schoole. 1633/Wm. Cleburne/Capt. Nicholas Martian/Richd. James." This was supposed to prove conclusively that Washington was three years ahead of Harvard. Actually, Washington was not founded until 1781, and the tablet story was not true...
...phenomenon was given sharp illustration last week as Mr. Eisenhower toured through Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, meeting the people, eating barbecued chicken, fishing in New England streams, and being plied with gifts of heifers, chickens, trees, shirts, boots, a red knit cap, a chain saw and a sculptured tablet of granite. As he moved through dairy country, where his Administration's farm program had sharply cut federal subsidies, farmers stood by the roadside and cheered. At the hamlets, at the intersections and on farm mailboxes, there were homemade signs that read: "Welcome Ike." "God Bless You, Mr. President...