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Vacancies & Rumors. Vatican customs have by no means changed; Pius XII makes known no more of his plans for consistories and red hats than did Julius III. But this week, as the 73-year-old Pope began a three-week rest period, there were rumors aplenty that a new batch of cardinals would be created before year's end. Reasons: 1) papal tradition designates December (during Advent) as the most appropriate time for creating new cardinals; 2) the Pope will probably be calling a consistory in December anyway, in connection with the ceremonies inaugurating the Holy Year...
Inspired by Goethe, whom Hutchins called "the world's last truly universal man," a committee of U.S. citizens (honorary chairman: Herbert Hoover) arranged to take over the mountain resort of Aspen, Colo, for a three-week bicentennial festival. They hired the Minneapolis Symphony to play, and assembled a distinguished roster of speakers, including Poet Stephen Spender, Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn, Playwright Thornton Wilder, Alsatian Philosopher-Missionary Albert Schweitzer, and Spain's Philosopher-Teacher-Statesman José Ortega y Gasset...
Homework. In Tyler, Tex., the National Board of Fire Underwriters finished a three-week inspection tour of the city, pointed out that the main fire station was a firetrap...
...this gay but canny mood, Edinburgh last week welcomed some 40,000 to its second annual, three-week "wee drap o' music an' drama." Edinburgh had spent $400,000 to outdo even the prewar glamor of Austria's Salzburg...
...last week went to 4,000 subscribers in the U.S., 7,000 in Britain and 9,000 elsewhere. But that was the only ordinary thing about Future. The editors had assembled their copy in London, had it set in Prague, and flown proofs to Britain for correction. After a three-week delay (while Communists nationalized the Prague plant), Future had gone to press in Czechoslovakia...