Word: thurston
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...wrote the late Father Herbert Thurston, S.J., on his favorite subject: poltergeists. Through the ages, poltergeists (German for noisy ghosts) have been known to plague mankind by breaking crockery, shifting furniture, shattering windows, and indulging in various bumpings, hangings and bitings not, apparently, to be traced to any natural agency. Many of them have persecuted clergymen, as in the case of Methodism's founder, John Wesley, who was an interested observer of knockings, rappings and agitated warming pans at Epworth Rectory in 1716-17. Last week a modern poltergeist seemed to be loose in a pious Roman Catholic household...
...hopefully predicted that the device would cut pilot fatality rates. Last year more than half the Navy's 277 pilot fatalities stemmed from take-offs or landings. "At the end of the runway, if something goes wrong, the pilot up to now has been helpless," said Rear Admiral Thurston B. Clark, commander of the test center. "We tell them to 'shut your eyes and go straight ahead.' This seat is the greatest invention since the parachute.'' The Navy is installing the seat (cost: about $2,500 each) in 50 Grumman F9F-8T fighter-trainers...
...THURSTON N. DAVIS, S.J. Editor-in-Chief America New York City...
There is a spiritual bond of brotherhood between two religious groups in the U.S.-Roman Catholics and Jews. This is the contention of Father Thurston N. Davis, editor of the Jesuit weekly America. Catholics and Jews, "immersed in a pervading Protestant culture here in the U.S., have at least some inkling that we share, in divergent yet strangely cognate ways, a common inheritance from the centuries...
...sources of Protestant-Roman Catholic tension in the U.S.? Last week the Jesuit weekly America listed three areas of friction in a lead article (written for CBS's Church of the Air radio show, but denied clearance because it was judged too controversial) by Editor in Chief Thurston N. Davis. The sore points as Jesuit Davis sees them...