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...never wanted to be anything but a cartoonist. When asked what he really wanted to do in life, he immediately replied, "I'm doing it," and added that he would continue "until they catch on to me." For a while, Feiffer attended the Pratt Institute of Art in New York where, as he says, he learned "very little." "But," he confesses, "that was probably more my fault than theirs...
...priests and scores of bishops crowded into St. Patrick's Cathedral for the installation of the city's sixth Roman Catholic archbishop. Said the new prelate, whom they had come to honor: "I have read that this see is the richest see . . . The city of New York has length and breadth and height and depth of astonishing dimensions . . . [But] my viewpoint as a Catholic bishop is the apprehension of St. Paul, who wrote to the Corinthians: 'We look not at the things that are seen but the things which are not seen...
This week, as Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman celebrated his 70th birthday and his 20th anniversary as New York's archbishop, he could look the length and breadth of his see for some remarkable achievements. During the last two decades, the Catholic population of the New York archdiocese (including Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, and seven suburban counties) grew 50% to 1,558,328; the number of auxiliary bishops had risen from one to nine; the number of elementary and high schools had increased from 307 to 412; tireless Fund Raiser Spellman has chalked up $41,322,074 through...
This week he keeps up his customary pace as he moves back and forth between New York (special Masses, dinners, receptions) and Boston (a private reunion with relatives). At 70, Spellman remains the foremost U.S. Catholic prelate and probably the busiest. As he put it 20 years ago: "I shall pray as if everything depended on God. I shall work as if everything depended...