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...that illustrated it, they angrily suppressed that issue of the Junior Red Cross News, and all Junior Red Cross activities in Somerville.* The pen-&-ink drawing of Rafael, Juanita and the priest was captioned: "Rafael and Juanita stood before the priest, who murmured a blessing and placed a barley wafer in Juanita's mouth." The Somerville schoolmen called this "sacrilegious . . . offensive . . . un-American . . . ridiculing the great central act of worship of a great religious denomination." Other Massachusetts cities-Cambridge, Lowell, Lawrence, Everett, Fall River-joined in the ban, were followed by New York City...
...question interesting the Bavarian church is: is it true, as claimed, that Therese Neumann has taken no substantial food since 1926. and nothing but a daily Holy Communion wafer since 1927? Only once since then has Fraulein Neumann submitted to examination, and then by four nuns and a physician who it is admitted may well have been prejudiced in her favor. It became known last fortnight that the Bavarian Bishops' Conference had asked Therese Neumann's father to permit an examination for a month or six weeks. The bishops were interested in the fast alone...
...point out to the chemists of the world that there is an excellent field for them in the search for a non-hydrous glue." Mechanical-minded Professor Koegel of the Karlsruhe Technical High School came forward with a new method of registering the authenticity of paintings: two wafer-thin sections are to be sawed from a steel cable, one inlaid in the painting, the other deposited in a central identification office. Microphotography will identify the adjacent surfaces of the cable...
...They wondered, nonetheless, whether such a rebuke might not be even more fitting when applied to the members of some Protestant sect who, when they take communion, actually touch the chalice with their mouths; rather than to Catholics who merely stick out their tongues to receive small circles of wafer...
...entered the reception hall. The crowd of stiffly dressed, excited diplomats caught their breaths as President Miguel Paz Barahona motioned him to the presidential chair. The U. S. youth, unsurprised, sat gravely down. Speeches. Hondurans coined for him a new nickname, "The Marvel Child." He was presented with a wafer thin watch hidden inside a U. S. $20 gold piece. In the street an unidentified citizen rushed excitedly through his escort, seized him firmly; lifted him high; screaming "The greatest man on earth." Wnen native maidens rushed forward at Toncontin Field the U. S. youth hopped hurriedly into the cockpit...