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...Vatican has long conceded that the popular printing press can outrun any censor's pencil. Since 1900 the church has banned only 255 books, most of them theological works. (Best-known contemporaries on the Index: Philosopher Benedetto Croce, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.) Responsibility has been shifted to local bishops and, in the last analysis, to the individual to decide whether a particular book can injure the reader's faith. Explains a Vatican book censor: "People have different spiritual allergies...
...eight months, Bennett (real name: Anthony Dominick Benedetto), but newly risen from seemingly permanent unemployment on Long Island, has become one of the top record-sellers in the U.S. His first big hit, after he was discovered by Bob Hope, then by Columbia Records' Mitch Miller, was Because of You; the record sold more than a million copies. Since then, under Miller's shrewd supervision, Tony has hit hard again with Cold, Cold Heart. He has grossed almost $200,000 ("I'm not sure; my manager takes care of that") from record sales and personal appearances...
...BENEDETTO CROCE, 85, Italian philosopher, who eats no meat...
...Single Glance. Thus, this week, Benedetto Croce approached his 84th birthday -an age, as he put it, "when a man's life seems a past that he can survey at a single glance." As scholars all over the world well knew, that glance included much...
Long before Italians ever heard the name of Benito Mussolini, they had begun to know Benedetto Croce. He was the wealthy aristocrat with the bristly hair who was to become not only Italy's most noted 20th Century philosopher, but a senator and a cabinet minister as well...