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Pope Pius XII (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). The opening of Holy Year from Rome...
Cadets spend time learning to play trombones, trumpets, accordions, euphoniums, graduate with the rank of probationary lieutenant. After a year of correspondence study and strict probation, they are commissioned as second lieutenants with the legal standing of ordained ministers. From there they advance through the field ranks: first lieutenant, captain, major; through the staff ranks: brigadier, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, lieutenant-commissioner, commissioner...
Such qualities, unflaggingly demonstrated by the Salvation Army through its 71-year history, had won it a measure of public support and respect, particularly in the U.S., that would have astonished the army's embattled first generation. But the workers in General Booth's host, like other dedicated servants of the poor, could make an explanation. The world could not continue to persecute, or even be indifferent, to men & women who live by the most difficult of Christ's beatitudes: "Blessed are the meek . . . blessed are the merciful...
...obvious that if Southworth stayed-and his $50,000-a-year contract had three years to run-the Braves would have a reshuffled team. By last week, 13 Braves who had been on Southworth's varsity in May had been traded or sold and half a dozen more were on the block...
...increased tax on the whole economy of the U.S." Its leaders, he said, are doing more damage "to the free-enterprise system than all the crackpots have ever done." To get an explanation, O'Mahoney asked Ben Fairless to appear before a congressional committee right after New Year's. Fairless, who in the past has often had as little to say as Garbo, promptly said that he would "welcome the opportunity" to explain the rise in steel prices...