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Following St. Paul's admonition to the Corinthians, the Roman Catholic Church enjoins its womenfolk to cover their heads at worship, if only with a shawl or handkerchief. Last week the Vicar General of the Catholic diocese of Louisville, Very Rev. E. Erie Willett, startled the faithful within and without his flock when, presumably acting for Louisville's Bishop John A. Floersh, he declared that the currently fashionable, crownless "halo hats" are inadequate for Catholic church wear. Quipped Vicar General Willett: "I am sorry that the ladies here will have to wait until they get to heaven before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Anti-Halo | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...that Reader Willett ("Losers," TIME Letters, Oct. 5) has buffaloed TIME'S timely editors, forced them to a weak reply to his implications of impure motives in their selection of Republican Chairman Hamilton as man-of-the-week, led them to select for their Oct. 5 issue two men-of-the-week (Yankee Gehrig and Giant Hubbell), one of whom must be a winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Capitalist, not counterman, Mr. Durant went down to North Asbury last week to see that all was swept and garnished for the grand opening. According to his nephew Wallace R. Willett, he went through the new concessions "like a whirlwind." Mr. Durant took up a mop in one shop, a dish cloth in another, to show concessionaires his ideas of spotlessness. Next day he departed for his old home town of Flint, Mich, on other business while North Asbury housewives stormed the Market's debut, attracted by Mr. Durant's special lunches at 5? an item, his special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Durant's Dishes | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Said faithful Nephew Willett: "Mr. Durant is just as enthusiastic over building up the Food Market as he ever was over automobiles. In fact he no longer can bear the thought of an automobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Durant's Dishes | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...feature races of the Meet will be in both hurdle events where Milt Green is matched against such high class performers as Johnny Donovan of Dartmouth, Bill Ladendorf of Pennsylvania, Jennings Potter of Columbia, Willett Moore and Dick Zellner of Yale, Grandin Godley of Cornell, to say nothing of Schmidt, Hayes, and Crawford, other Crimson runners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACKSTERS FAVORED IN HEPTAGONAL MEET | 5/8/1936 | See Source »

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