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AUGUSTINE’S BAPTISM: Book explores St. Ambrose’s rigorous training of the great neophyte PAGE 21
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Various editions of “Gone With the Wind,” including ones from Spain, Germany, Iran, Finland and Vietnam, are part of a multimillion-dollar bequest to the Atlanta archdiocese. The bequest includes a 50 percent share of the trademark and literary rights to the novel.
‘Gone With the Wind’-fall for Atlanta church CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
ATLANTA – The Archdiocese of Atlanta has received a multimilliondollar gift from the estate of Margaret Mitchell’s nephew, Joseph Mitchell, including a 50 percent share of the trademark and literary rights to “Gone With the Wind.” The inheritance includes a collection of signed “Gone With the Wind” first editions published in various languages and some of Margaret Mitchell’s personal effects, including her wallet with her press card and library card, and furniture from her apartment. First published in 1936 by Macmillan, “Gone With the Wind” sold 176,000 copies at its original release and was a
runaway success. According to Publishers Weekly, by the end of 1938 more than a million copies had sold, and that number doubled after the release of the movie in 1939. Today, an estimated 30 million copies have sold worldwide. Simon and Schuster now publishes the book, which sells an estimated 75,000 copies every year in hardcover and other formats. According to “Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller’s Odyssey From Atlanta to Hollywood,” by Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley Jr., the publisher expects a “profitable future for the remainder of the copyright term,” which ends in the U.S. in 2031, some 95 years after the first publication. The book has been translated more
than 30 times, including in countries as diverse as Albania, Chile, Denmark, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Turkey, Japan, Finland, the former Yugoslavia and Burma. New editions continue to be published in Europe and Asia, although the copyright has expired in Canada and Japan. The archdiocese has created a corporation with the Eugene Mitchell trust to manage the literary inheritance. “We want to continue to make ‘Gone With the Wind’ available to the widest possible audience and to do it in a way that is respectful and dignified and in line with the wishes of the late Stephens Mitchell,” said Deacon Steve Swope, who has been overseeing the transition of the bequest on behalf of Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory.
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Soaring food prices threaten most vulnerable GEORGE RAINE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
The worst drought in half a century decimating crops in the Midwest is rippling through the economy and on track to punish the most vulnerable among us, from California to Mozambique, as global food prices have spiked 6 percent and are climbing. For some people the effects are very
real, not mere projections. Cattle farmers, relying on a corn crop that will be one-third smaller than thought at planting time, are suffering as their costs skyrocket, the reverberation is being felt all the way to Menlo Park, home of St. Anthony’s Padua Dining Room, which has fed the hungry since 1974. There, Maximiliano Torres, the operations manager, has seen the price of beef jump. Some donors have cut back
on the excess food they contribute. The demand for food six days a week, as well as the clothing the nonprofit dispenses, is constant, growing, and the dining room is in what Patricia Papalian, a spokeswoman, calls “a state of preparedness.” “We know it is going to hit hard,” meaning the continuing effects of a SEE FOOD, PAGE 8
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NEW YORK – New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said some people have called inviting President Obama to the annual Al Smith dinner “a scandal,” but he said the church’s posture “toward culture, society and government is that of engagement and dialogue.” “It’s better to invite than to ignore, more effective to talk together than to yell from a distance, more productive to open a door than to shut one,” he said, adding that recent popes have received “dozens of leaders” with whom they disagree on serious issues. The Al Smith dinner in New York brings people of faith together for “an evening of friendship, civility and patriotism to help those in need,” not to endorse either candidate running for the U.S. presidency, Cardinal Dolan said. The purpose of the dinner is to show the nation and the Catholic Church “at our best,” he said in an Aug. 14 posting on his blog titled “The Gospel in the Digital Age.” “An invitation to the Al Smith dinner is not an award, or the provision of a platform to expound
INSIDE: LABOR 2012 PAGES 9-14: This week’s issue features our annual advertising Labor Guide as well as articles on labor and work in light of Catholic social teaching. PAGE 17: The freedom to organize is founded in religious freedom, writes Jesuit Father George E. Schultze.
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