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...months the Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, plump-faced, quick-smiling, and broadminded, has been Archbishop of 1,000,000 Roman Catholics in & around New York City. But not until last week did he attain the fullness of his ecclesiastical powers. Then a great throng of priests, bishops and Catholic laymen filled St. Patrick's Cathedral. Burly Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia-substituting for Archbishop Spellman's onetime superior, ailing William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston-placed around the Archbishop's shoulders a narrow woolen band embroidered with crosses. It was a pallium, symbol...
...story: Four years ago, at Wahnsien, on the rushing Yangtze River, he called for help to a watching throng as his ship was about to collide with the landing float. "First to volunteer," explained he, "was no strong husky male but a frail Dresden China 'doll'. . . . Other persons promptly followed and, in their eagerness, pushed the celestial maiden overboard. . . . Although the girl was drowning in full sight of thousands of Chinese they, with much better appreciation of China's tremendous population than I, passively watched her float past...
Archbishop Schrembs blamed the revolt on a minority of 50 families. But no great throng of erring children hastened to make their submissions. Last Sunday, many a parishioner worshiped before a gaudy statue in his home. Said Nick Gambatese, as his daughters prayed to the Holy Mother: "I stay home until I find out more about it." Nicola Scricca fixed up a big altar, told reporters: "Every day we pray here-my wife and four children. Today it was our 'Mass.' I read and they are the congregation. It is the best we can do. . . . We will make...
...President Seymour, on the other hand, welcomes him with open arms, passport violator though he is. It is clear that this split touches the very fundamentals of what is, and is not, done. Let Emily referee the fight, and plenty of people who have nothing better to do will throng the sidelines to cheer one contestant or the other...
Behind the Harvard band, the student throng marched to the field to hear speeches by Macdonald, Bill Bingham, Tack Hardwick, Dick Harlow, and manager John Atherton. All expressed the hope and the belief that Harvard would reach its turning-point as in the past two years with the Princeton game...