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...Church with a stock character out of Central Casting to be trotted out at will and bedecked as a sort of ecclesiastical Liberace for crassly commercial purposes. In so doing, not one jot is added to the stature of the Church or its mission in the world, a chore, incidentally, reserved not to Hollywood but to the Holy Ghost. Let us devoutly hope that the cassock and habit may enjoy eternal rest from moviedom's commercialism, and pray that they may never decide to shoot St. Augustine's Confessions with George Raft in the lead...
Next day the Prime Minister and three companions flew north to forest-ringed Lac la Ronge and a few days' fishing. As a concession to Diefenbaker's new job, his companions excused him from his customary chore as cook. Trolling the glass-smooth waters for lake trout, Diefenbaker hauled in a six-pounder...
Squash Champion Ben Heckscher will handle the third singles chore for the varsity, moving up from fourth position last year. Squash captain-elect Larry Sears, a new comer to varsity tennis competition, will be at fourth singles, probably followed by Cal Place and Captain Ian Gianetti in fifth and sixth positions respectively. Both of these men return from the 1956 varsity...
...time for millions of Americans to begin thinking about their income-tax reports, and soon grumbling citizens would be chewing up forms, muttering oaths and worse as they sent out their tax checks. Why not, asked an IRS man, "add a light touch to the annual tax chore" by turning out a spine-tingling, patriotic Official Tax Song-just like a cigarette commercial...
...skyward from an airport some 50 miles to the northeast, near the desert community of Palmdale, in an F89 Scorpion twin jet interceptor. The Scorpion, equipped with new radar, was soon to be returned to the Air Force. Owen and Radarman Curtiss A. Adams, 27, were flying a final chore: three runs at another jet 25,000 ft. up, to test the ingenious radar mechanism that puts the interceptor on the trail of invading aircraft, fixes on the enemy in unshakable pursuit, then at the proper moment, opens fire automatically...