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...document's seven carefully worded pages, crammed with lengthy quotations from Popes Leo XIII, Pius XI and Pius XII, are a prime example of ecclesiastical double talk, significant mainly for what they left...
...long arm of Hollywood reaches into every province of the manners and mores of our time; it does not, except obliquely and occasionally, touch the ideologies of our day." In 1936 Pope Pius XI testified to the importance of the cinema by devoting a special papal encyclical to it. So did Clark Gable when he took off his shirt in It Happened One Night and revealed that he wore no undershirt. That gesture cost U.S. men's underwear manufacturers a 40-50% cut in business with-in the year...
Arthur Murray's five: Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, Ann Miller and Mrs. Murray, "who is not only a superb dancer but has all the additional qualities that would make a man happy in retirement." Pope Pius XII told 3,000 newly weds to trust each other, emphasized that if the husband was a doctor, a lawyer, state official or military officer with professional secrets "the wife must show she trusts her husband and make no attempt to learn the secret...
Died. Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri, 76, Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church; in Vatican City. He succeeded Pius XI as Papal Nuncio to Poland (1921-27), negotiated the Concordat between the Vatican and the Polish Republic...
...fair guess that his personal envoy to the Vatican, onetime Steelman Myron C. Taylor, had discussed the same question with Pope Pius XII. At week's end Mr. Taylor, just back by Clipper, waited to make his confidential report to the President...