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Monaco's most pressing internal problem is, of course, whether Princess Grace is pregnant. In Paris Prince Rainier III kept his own counsel. But a correspondent for CIP, international Catholic news agency, reported that the Prince's chaplain, Delaware's garrulous Father Francis Tucker, had told all: "I see no reason to deny information which will soon be made official...
...midsummer heat seared Washington, the Congress of the U.S. was overworked, jumpy, restive, turbulent, eloquent, despondent, confused. "We humbly confess," the House chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp, observed in one of his daily prayers, "that in thinking of our days with their mornings and evenings, their problems and tasks, we frequently find so much that baffles and perplexes us." Overhanging the nation's busy lawmakers were two calendar clouds: 1) six weeks hence begin the presidential nominating conventions, and 2) four months hence 35 Senate and all 435 House seats are at stake in the congressional elections...
William Holden, wearing a mustache and a scowl, plays a hard-boiled Marine colonel who flourishes a swagger stick, derides the Red Cross for dishing out "sentimental slop" to his boys, eats out a chaplain simply because the troops, attending a prayer meeting called by the reverend, got sprayed by Japanese mortar shells...
Adams was introduced by Dean Delmar Leighton. The Invocation and Benediction were given by Commander Robert F. McComas, Navy chaplain. Captain John F. Gallagher, U.S.N., professor of Naval Science, administered the Oath of Office to the graduates...
...seamen, arranging such things as transfusions of rare blood, settling language and legal problems. Breaking the news of a seaman's death is a common and painful task; British shipping companies always cable the Flying Angel in a dead sailor's home port and wait until the chaplain can visit the family before sending an official cable. Wife trouble is another constant concern...