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Reviving the old Germanic custom of Abendmusiken, Memorial Church has instituted a March series of free Sunday evening concerts. Inaugurating the series last Sunday was a recital of music for organ and strings, ranging from Purcell to Piston...
Whether Hindu, Moslem or follower of virtually any other religion, India's father of the bride teeters close to bankruptcy. A moneylender's dream, he is forced by custom to fork over a huge dowry for his daughter, start paying off every member of the bridegroom's family with lavish presents of cash and sweetmeats as soon as the engagement is announced. The ideal wedding must be a stunningly beautiful rite that lasts for days, with thousands of gaily colored electric-light bulbs adorning the house, an ornate marquee and a team of cooks to gorge scores...
Last week two other quiet marriage ceremonies of seven couples were held by the small Namdhari sect of the Sikhs, who have carried on the un-Indian custom for 96 years. Any Namdhari Sikh couple has religious sanction for group marriage so long as it is conducted personally by the sect's leader, Satguru Partap Singh, 68. The cost per couple last week: $5.46. Satguru Partap is so set against pomp that in his sect a couple is excommunicated if a dowry is discovered. In 1911 he sponsored legislation sanctioning group marriage for Indians of all sects...
...Latin American custom, any graduate of a law school may use the title doctor...
...belated bow to 20th century custom, the Church of England Assembly voted to institute a 24-hour information service, thus spare the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, who democratically answers his own phone at Lambeth Palace even in countless wee-hours calls. "When the telephone rings at midnight," asked one assembly delegate, "is it resented as an intrusion on one's sleep or welcomed as an opportunity to spread the Gospel?" Said the Archbishop forthrightly: "At Lambeth it is resented...