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Parson Weems sold his books at fairs, races, sittings of county courts from New York to Georgia-between times "beating up the headquarters of all the good old planters and farmers . . . regardless of roads horrid and suns torrid." He sold Paradise Lost, The Vicar of Wakefield, Robinson Crusoe, Cook's Voyages, the works of Voltaire, Tom Paine and Bunyan and Bard's Compendium of Midwifery, which he touted as "the grand American Aristotle...
...lack food and medical supplies. Warsaw is lying in ruins. The Germans are murdering the wounded in the hospitals. They are driving women and children before their tanks as screens. Our sons are dying. The help that has come from Great Britain is insufficient. Hear us -Holy Father, Vicar of Christ...
...second time within a year, New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman was out in the warring world last week. The flying prelate (he once held a pilot's license) is Military Vicar of all Roman Catholics in the U.S. armed forces. Bent on visiting as many of them as he can, he stopped first in North Africa, then flew on to Italy. He visited the Fifth Army's General Headquarters just behind the firing line, had lunch with King George VI and Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, offered an afternoon Mass for servicemen...
Unperturbed, high on the dais in front of his massive gold throne, stood the Vicar of Jesus Christ. In heavily accented but clearly understood English, the tall Pontiff blessed the newshawks, gave them fatherly counsel...
...with Bolshevism as the price for the Church's survival. His years of patient waiting were rewarded last year with the official restoration of the Church, his own formal recognition as Patriarch (TIME, Sept. 13 et seg.). A great theological scholar, he last month challenged the Pope as vicar of Christ, proposed a union of churches under one leader chosen from among bishops of the world's capitals...