Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, Presbyterian churchmen decided that at its next meeting the presbytery would look long and hard at the circumstances under which Presbyterian Minister Stewart P. MacLennan considered himself at liberty to marry thrice-divorced Cinemactress Lana Turner to thrice-divorced Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. The presbyteries of Buffalo-Niagara, N.Y. and New Brunswick, N.J.-plus many a minister-had publicly raised their eyebrows at the Presbyterian nuptials (held in the home of the Hollywood Reporter's W. R. Wilkerson) three days after veteran bridegroom Topping's divorce. Chapter 12, Section 10 of the Presbyterian Directory...
Nightly Except Sunday. Movies have never been popular with the churchmen of Sioux Center. An outsider wanted to erect a theater in 1938, but a popular referendum stopped him. The youngsters took to driving the eleven miles to Orange City's Tulip Theatre. A year ago, the Sioux Center American Legion post leased the Town Hall for a nightly (except Sunday) movie. The resulting uproar split the town squarely down the middle. Merchants liked the trade it brought to town; some citizens thought it kept Sioux Center's youth off the highways. But the Ministerial Association...
Critics found the music (by Remi Gassman) weak and stumbling, but Billy was the brightest thing the dilapidated Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo has done this season. Three Manhattan churchmen also had a word to say about it: they found Billy Sunday sinful. To 38-year-old Choreographer Page, who once toured with Pavlova, the charge was nothing new: her lusty Frankie and Johnny had to be tidied up by New York censors, is still banned in Boston. Says she: "The Bible is filled with sex, especially the Old Testament. And anyway, you can't be very sexy...
...England's churchmen were in no joking mood. Last fortnight the Anglican diocesan bishops met privately with the Archbishop of Canterbury to consider whether Viscount Jowitt and the noble Lords had in truth rendered an un-Christian decision, and if so, what to do about...
...Christianity this principle was proclaimed. Aldous Huxley in The Perennial Philosophy says that self-surrender "is inculcated ... in the . . . writings of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and most of the other major and minor religions of the world." In recent years in the popular publications, A.A. and many other laymen and churchmen have been advocating this approach to abundant living. It is nice to know that science is at last catching up with the Truth. RUTH HITCHCOCK DAVIS Wakefield, Mass...