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...tired little man in a dark civilian suit advanced toward each other. At midstream the two men snipped a ceremonial tape, then embraced. Thus, last week, after many postponements, Argentina's President Juan Perón and Brazil's President Caspar Eurico Dutra inaugurated the Augustin Justo bridge that links their countries...
...With the late, great Producer Augustin Daly...
...Simeon Stylites is likely to seem a kind of 5th-Century Shipwreck Kelly*-a symbol of ascetic reductio ad absurdum. To that view, his 38-year residence atop a pillar was only a Syrian sideshow that attracted the curious. The vulgar error of a vulgar age, says Father Augustin C. Wand, S.J., in the current American Ecclesiastical Review. "Simeon the Stylite is not a character about whom we Catholics need to be apologetic...
Soldiers & Legends. In St. Augustin de Portneuf there is a farm that has been tilled continually by Trudels for 200 years. Scores of Trudels became priests or nuns, and a few were bishops. Trudels fought the Americans in 1812, the Boers in 1899-1902, the German's in 1914-18; there were 300 Trudels in Canada's armed services in World War II, and probably almost as many in U.S. uniforms. One Trudel, Anselme, was a Canadian Senator (1873-90). Another, George, was recently mayor of Manchester, N.H. The Trudels even have their own Paul Bunyan-Daniel...
Radio blood and thunder may be playing its last season in Canada. The Canadian Medical Association and the Toronto Board of Education have damned the blood-and-thunder programs as dangerous; a committee in the House of Commons has found the shows in "bad taste." Last week Dr. Augustin Frigon, general manager of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., was certain that the shivers were on their way out of the shiver-shows-to the point where nary a hair of an innocent child would be stood...