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Sidney Lovett, 68, chaplain of Yale University, is many things to many men. For some, he is the fun-loving chief figure in the Great Hoax of 1948, who appeared as the mustachioed guest speaker at a Yale charity banquet and had everyone convinced that he was Count Alexandri Cristea, "the oldest living member of the royal family of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen." For others he is the tolerant chaperon who turns up at student parties equipped with a London bobby's helmet and a whistle to blow should things get out of hand. He is also the coach...
...White Divinity. For two years he was rector of Christ Church in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Then Pike went back to teaching-as chaplain and head of the department of religion at Columbia University. Out of his typewriter began to stream a series of religious books (eight so far), including Beyond Anxiety, If You Marry Outside Your Faith, The Next Day. Out of his mouth came the kind of trenchant talk that was rare in Episcopal pulpits. In 1952 New York's Bishop Horace W. B. Donegan appointed him dean of St. John's -the largest Anglican cathedral...
TALMADGE F. McNABB Chaplain (Captain), U.S.A. Fort Benning...
...Sidewalk. Young Rector Kinsolving's congregation obviously likes the shaking he is giving it. He moved to Pasco four months ago from a mission vicarage in California, an earlier tour as intern chaplain at San Quentin Prison and two years as an adman in Philadelphia and Phoenix. Ariz., has a strong Episcopal family background (his father, grandfather, great-uncle and cousin were or are bishops ). Said a fellow clergyman: "Who's Who is on his side-even if Episcopal doctrine is not." At Pasco, Kinsolving has broken all church attendance records, more than doubled church pledges...
...Verlaine was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at hard labor. Later a Paris court awarded Mathilde a separation decree. These catastrophes, in the opinion of British Biographers Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson, proved the making of Verlaine. Stripped of both wife and friend, he went straight to the prison chaplain, asked to be received back into the church. He "happily began to write religious poems" and, on his release from prison, lived for years without love or liquor. He explained: "I'm fighting to put down that...