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...feast began with sturgeon, smoked salmon and caviar on bliny (Russian pancakes). Vodka flowed, but no toasts were exchanged. After soup came partridge stuffed with wild rice. After the salad trailed bowls of fresh pineapple and sherbet. Then followed filet mignon, vegetables, a magnificent baked Alaska, and fruit again. Cracked the U.S.'s Ernest Gross: "I thought the meal was over three times before it was." Asked if it had been a Russian dinner, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb sardonically quipped: "Not Russian-Edwardian. It was one more proof that the Soviet Union is 40 years behind...
...when Pius XII sent a circular letter to his bishops asking their advice. (The reply was overwhelmingly in favor of a papal pronouncement -TIME, Nov. 22, 1948.) And though there is no reference to the belief in the canonical Scriptures, the Assumption has been celebrated as a regular feast day since as early as the 7th Century. The new dogma would make only one difference. For Roman Catholics to doubt the truth of the doctrine today would be merely sinful, or, as the church puts it, "temerarious or rash." After Pope Pius XII pronounces it a dogma, disbelief...
With the groundwork laid for schizophrenia, or at feast amnesia, the plot switches to Gaslight: Claudette, it turns out, is the victim of an elaborate frame-up. After using a lot of fancy psychiatric jargon in analyzing the heroine's condition, the script finally reveals the villain as melodrama's oldfashioned "mad fiend." Still unsolved: Who framed Actress Colbert into the role...
July 6, anniversary of Maria's death, was set as a feast day for Roman Catholics to commemorate each year...
After the game, a buffet supper awaits the graduating class in Lowell House courtyard. The feast will take from...