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...Barry Wills's design to that of a safe investment. For the Smiths of Wyncote, Pa. (income $10,000 to $12,000), Aymar Embury's spacious Colonial house appeared as dignified as all get-out, Harrison & Fouilhoux's severely glass-walled house as daring as the devil...
...such a plane of fury that it sounded as if the No. 2 Nazi wanted more than war upon Czechoslovakia which he contemptuously called "that little chit of a race devoid of culture!" Behind Prague, General Göring said, he saw "Moscow and the eternal Jewish devil's grimace...
...every beatification there is a "Devil's Advocate." Last week the Devil's Advocate in Mother Cabrini's case arrived in Manhattan. He was Monsignor Salvatore Natucci of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. It is his duty to cross-examine witnesses, scrutinize evidence with pious skepticism, advance every possible argument against beatification or canonization...
Last week Devil's Advocate Natucci journeyed to a Manhattan Catholic high school named for Mother Cabrini. In a coffin in the chapel-crypt lay her body, removed there from a cemetery five years ago after being identified and reported "well-preserved" - an aid but not an essential to beatification. Last week Monsignor Natucci, his entourage and a few necessary witnesses beheld a second exhumation of Mother Cabrini. At some secret later time, the Devil's Advocate was to sever from the body a limb (which limb would not be revealed) - a "first-class" relic which he would...
...lined the course at a safe distance, Thunderbolt, zooming at nearly six miles a minute, looked like a flame (from the exhausts) streaking through a cloud of salt. At the finish of the run, 200-lb. Captain Eyston had trouble getting out of the cockpit. "I had a devil of a time," he chuckled. "The heat of the motor must have swelled my body...