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...Christian philosophers who still rely on strict, logical proofs of the existence of God, a British Jesuit has a bit of advice: save your breath. Says Father Vincent Turner in an article in Britain's highbrow Roman Catholic quarterly, the Dublin Review: "Traditional theistic argument no longer cuts...
...Paris one night last week, President Vincent Auriol of France sat down to a banquet of boeuf bouquetière in honor of a special group of guests: 41 French schoolboys who had some tales to tell. A few months before, each boy had set out on a solitary journey of thousands of miles with about $45 for the whole trip. For these winners of France's oddest scholarships, dinner with M. Auriol was just one in a long series of adventures...
...entered the State Department and served a year and a half as code clerk at the American embassy in Paris. With that memory of his, Jim was an outstanding code clerk. One of his colleagues in the code room was a young Yale poet named Stephen Vincent...
...committee announced a list of the most amiable Parisians, as chosen in a poll. Among the winners: a cab driver, a policeman, a salesgirl, a dress model and smiling President Vincent Auriol himself. Perhaps the most notable of all the prizewinners was vast, maternal Mme. Denise Muairon, 52, an imposing pillar of Parisian lovability. Mme. Muairon, the concierge at Numero 19 Rue Daru, belongs to a profession that is usually rated about as amiable as a barbed-wire fence. Unlike her colleagues, who snarl at one and all indiscriminately, Madame has smiled benignly from her glass-enclosed niche...
Silver Jubilee (Sat. 11:15 p.m., NBC) is a five-month series celebrating NBC's 25th year as a radio network. On the opening program, Veteran Announcer Ben Grauer interviewed Bandleader Vincent Lopez, whose orchestra was the first on the network air, and the recorded excerpts from the past quarter-century included a joke by Ed Wynn, the first news flash of Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt proclaiming the "rendezvous with destiny...