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Santa Fe is one of the oldest Catholic settlements in North America. Much of its color and history has been set down by Novelist Willa Gather in Death Comes for the Archbishop. Nearly a century ago Father John B. Lamy (Father Jean Marie Latour in the book) was sent to take the district from Mexican ecclesiastical control, build it as an independent vicariate Apostolic. A gentle, ascetic priest in buckskins, he made friends with Kit Carson, brought the church to many who had long been unchurched, became Santa Fe's archbishop in 1875, built Santa Fe's cathedral...
Authoress Willa Gather went to college (University of Nebraska, 1895). Authoress Edith Wharton did not.* Faced with these facts, young ladies contemplating authorship and undecided about going to college may well hesitate. Nor will Dr. Bertha Beach Tharp's educational analysis of eminent women, published in the August Scientific Monthly, be much more helpful. Of 1,000 women culled at random from Who's Who in America for 1929, one-third were authors, slightly less than one-half of whom had gone to college...
...Indian Pope, the King Philip of the Southwest; Uncle Dick Wootton, who traveled 5,000 miles in unmapped, hostile country; James Ohio Pattie, who preferred adventurous hardships to riches and domestic bliss; Armijo, sheep-thief who became the absolute dictator of New Mexico; indefatigable Bishop Lamy, hero of Willa Gather's Death Comes for the Archbishop; Billy the Kid, who "briefly ruled a region as large as France because he was faster on the draw than any other man in it"; Elfego Baca, Mexican bravo who got a sheriff's job by standing off a posse of Texan...
...Cuban politics and calls no grave-digging spade by its right name. Sinister echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor at his alma mater Haverford College, Author Wright (real name: William Reitzel) worked in Cuba a year five years ago, there...
...Good Father." Cardinal-elect Villeneuve cares for the second oldest see in North America, the one Writer Willa Gather made famous in Shadows on the Rock. His election as archbishop made certain his appointment as cardinal (TIME. Dec. 28, 1931). Son of a French Canadian cobbler, he is only 49, a tall, spare ascetic whom Ottawa called its "Good Father" when he taught there in St. Joseph Scholasticate and the University. Last June Archbishop Villeneuve admonished women to bathe in suitable costume, "a skirt reaching nearly to the knees ... a species of coat or cape which shields the shape...