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Despite their quarrels over justification, the delegates at Helsinki had no trouble in picking a successor to Dr. Franklin Clark Fry as president of the Lutheran World Federation for the next six years. He is shy, solemn Dr. Fredrik Axel Schiotz, 62, president of the 2,300,000-member American Lutheran Church, which has its greatest strength among Midwesterners of Scandinavian and German origins...
...solemn protest against the departure of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod from the historical position of the Lutheran Synodical Conference," the delegates voted overwhelmingly to leave the conference and end co-sponsorship with Missouri of several joint welfare and missionary programs. Missouri's sin: working with more liberal bodies who belong to the National Lutheran Council, which Wisconsin regards as a center of downright heresy...
Over Verdun's ravaged fields one moonlit night last week, a bell tolled mournfully from the vast hilltop monument of Douaumont, where 100,000 nameless skeletons are entombed. French army drums and bugles sounded the solemn Sonnerie aux Morts, France's ancient salute to the fallen. A chorus of clear young voices intoned the German army's somber hymn, Ich hatt' einen Kameraden. Then a torchlit procession of 1,400 young Germans and 700 French youths wound down the damp hillside. The ceremony was part of a movement started by Father Theobald Rieth, a German Jesuit...
Highest Duty. Yet the uneasy feeling persisted that somehow Ward had been made a scapegoat, and that his case and the public's reaction to it carry a disturbing message about British law and morals. Nothing could be more revered, solemn and self-righteous than the British judiciary, but there is now a growing consensus that the Ward case has put in question its vaunted independence from politics...
...critics agreed that the show is too long and often too solemn. It is, said the Boston Globe's Kevin Kelly, "a jerry-built musical shack of a show badly in need of a carpenter." The overall verdict: salvageable, with work. Opens in New York Oct. 17 after a stop in Detroit...