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...Angeles last week, Father McGivney's secret society, the Knights of Columbus, held its annual convention, commemorating the 70th anniversary of its founding and the 100th of Father McGivney's birth. Total membership is now 829,634. Besides satisfying the native American fondness for plumed hats and recondite lodge rituals, the Knights have a comprehensive system of insurance and sick benefits for members. Like secular secret societies, they also manage various charitable activities...
France's generation of giants is becoming ancient. Fernand Leger is 71, Picasso past 70; Raoul Dufy is 75, Rouault 81, Matisse 82. Two months ago, another of the giants, white-haired Georges Braque, quietly passed his 70th birthday and calmly went about putting the last touches on his first exhibit in two years. Last week Paris got a chance to see Braque's new show and came away declaring that time had not yet dimmed the old master's artistry...
...hundred and ninety nine Radcliffe seniors will owitch their tasseis from right to left in the Annex's 70th Commencement exercises to be held at 11 a.m. today in Sanders Theatre. Seventy degrees will be conferred for advanced studies...
Just before the Christmas vacation began, '27 paused to doff his hat to President Lowell on his 70th birthday. Lowell would need no monument to his administration. The tutorial program, intramural athletics, and the many new dormitories and classes were monuments enough to the President's residence at Harvard. Already, they were preparing to open the new business school across the river, and officials had announced that, because of affiliations with the Boston Public Library, it would be the largest business library in the world...
Back in the 70th century, when the great Castilian dramatist CalderÓon de la Barca wrote the most sumptuous of all the autos sacramentales (Belshazzar's Feast, The Divine Orpheus), these religious dramatizations, similar to the earlier English mystery plays, reached their peak popularity. After that, their appeal dwindled and they all but disappeared from the holy-days celebrations outside the churches of the Spanish-speaking world. But in remote Oruro, 12,000 ft. up in the Bolivian Andes, the auto still flourishes with strong Indian overtones, and last week, as usual at carnival time, the show...