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...Trapp Farm for the first of four summer "Sing Weeks." They paid from $70 to $90 apiece for ten days' board & room and the chance to study church music and folk songs with the Trapps and their music director, Father Franz Wasner, who is also the family chaplain...
Mayonnaise on Pears. In 1938, the Trapps arrived in the U.S. with $4 in pocket and a concert contract in hand. Father Wasner came along as the family chaplain, by special dispensation of his bishop. "How I hated this country at first," Mrs. Trapp says. "Oblong envelopes and mayonnaise on pears!" But the family was soon making $1,000 a concert, and she thought better of the country. "It's so big," she exclaims, "and I love to make long-distance calls!" All the Trapps are now U.S. citizens, have dropped their titles...
...tell you of one of the cases which has moved me to deep indignation. A year or so ago in one of our Western dioceses a priest died. He was a man of more than average ability, a scholarly man, appointed by his bishop to serve as an examining chaplain ... He retired in poor health at 68 and in a few months died. Our rich, generous and purportedly Christian Church granted his widow a pension of $27.60 per month . . . Our Episcopal Church tells the widow of a priest to live on $6.50 per week ... on less than...
...streets. The two scholars were equipped with a pink parasol and a walkie-talkie. At the foot of the obelisk, Parisian firemen stood ready with a hook & ladder. The younger of the pair, Mario Fabre, climbed to the top of the monolith; the other, François Guinet-Chaplain, established himself at its base. The hours went by. A crowd began to gather. At 10 o'clock the crowd was thick in front of a receiving set which had been set up at the foot of the shaft. From his pocket, Egyptologist Guinet-Chaplain whipped a new, three-inch...
Parish Priest Louis-Philippe Camirand, the union's chaplain, rushed a communique to the blockaders. Said he: "You are hopelessly outnumbered. You have done a good day's work. Go home now . . ." When the first police cars pulled up, the barricades were deserted...