Word: rev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America, the Jesuit weekly, the Rev. Thurston N. Davis, S.J., last week wrote some testy words about the state of the American language. Father Davis was especially upset over linguistic corruption by advertising agencies...
...Archbishop of York dismissed Mrs. Knight's views as "the stock in trade of atheists and agnostics for at least two centuries," and the Bishop of Coventry rounded on both BBC ("irresponsible") and Mrs. Knight (a "pernicious performance" by a "brusque, so-competent, bossy female"). The Rev. Dr. Donald Soper, fire-eating Methodist leader, went to her defense. "The alternative to such discussion is to mollycoddle religion . . . As Christians we should welcome the opportunity for examination of the fundamentals of our faith...
...received a Mercury and other gifts on the television program This Is Your Life, solemnly announced that the loot was legally presented not to Pole-Vaulter Richards, but to Parson Richards' First Brethren church "in the interests of furthering its service." His amateur status still intact, the Rev. Richards hopped 15 ft. 3¾ into the air at the Massachusetts Knights of Columbus Games, won the pole vault and set a new meet record...
Died. The Rev. Daniel Aloysius Lord, S.J., 66, nationally known Roman Catholic pamphleteer, writer of religious songs (Mother Beloved, For Christ the King), national organizer (in 1925) and director of the Sodality of Our Lady (membership: 2,000,000 plus), producer (in 1929) of the strict movie production code for Hollywood's Hays Office; of cancer; in St. Louis...
...Boston area. After making these charges in "secret" testimony-- it was headline news the next day--Philbrick went on to point out that he had no "legal" evidence, a point which the papers didn't find much use for. These people turned out to be such names as the Rev. Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological Seminary, the Rev. Kenneth DePew Hughes of St. Bartholomew's Church and the Rev. Donald Lothrop of the Community Church, Boston. Mr. Philbrick doesn't mind making irresponsible charges; he claimed that he had once spoken at Community Church but when the Rev...