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Identifying themselves only to the parish priest at Courmayeur, Italy, the four men in mountaineers' rigs hired a guide, conquered the Alps' highest peak, 15,781-ft. Mont Blanc. The explorers: four German priests, among them Julius Cardinal Döpfner, Bishop of Berlin, at 46 the youngest cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. Meanwhile, in Chicago, another Catholic prelate stood at a peak: for his longstanding friendship with the city's Jewish community, Auxiliary Archbishop Bernard J. Shell was named Man of the Year by the Greater Chicago Committee for State of Israel Bonds. Said Committee...
...Hollywood Bowl's Carmen. He takes as many as five lessons each week, is now being trained by Strelitzer to sing all of Wagner's bass roles. Oliver insists that he will not turn professional. But he knows that most bassos do not reach their peak until their mid-40s and admits that the idea is attractive. Says he: "There is a great temptation when you have that feeling of raw power over an audience...
...Heap o' Livin' ("It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home/A heap o' sun an' shadder, an' ye sometimes have to roam") alone went through 35 printings, sold more than 1,000,000 copies. At his peak, Guest earned $128,000 a year. He had many impressive friends; Henry Ford and William Lyon Phelps were among his greatest admirers. He owned two handsome homes-a vast, colonnaded winter residence in Detroit, a summer home in fashionable Pointe aux Barques...
...Catholic-baiting legions are at last on the march in Alabama. Good. By next year, with the anti-Catholic madness reaching its peak, Southern Protestantism will again be revealed for what it is: an obscene collection of bigoted, Bible-clutching morons, the benighted cult of a corrupt and appallingly stupid society...
Bold Journey (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Cooling fare for a summer evening-the ascent of Mt. McKinley, highest peak in North America (20,270 ft.), by Brad Washburn's twelve-man, one-woman expedition...