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...drove him to distraction and destruction turns up in his hotel and starts tormenting him again. Desperate, he soothes his shattered nerves with a dose of nature's own narcotic (Dahlia Lavi), and when the director has a heart attack he offers to finish the picture for auld lang syne. But when the actor shows a real flair for directing, the invalid flies into a snit, accuses him of "stealing my picture," orders him thrown off the set, smears him in the columns...
...auld mug," Sir Thomas Lipton lovingly called it, and the merry Glasgow tea baron tried five times to win it with his majestic Shamrocks, only to fail and die, finally disheartened ("I willna challenge again. I canna...
...then the picture sends up a good line, like "I can see the tears forming in your wallet," and "What if a cobra bites you in a place you can't reach? That's when you find out who your real friends are." For auld lang zing, Dorothy Lamour puts in an appearance, boldly slinking around in a sarong and looking half her age. But for the most part, The Road to Hong Kong seems like a whoop-it-up college reunion held by the last two members of the class...
...Auld Kirk. Since its beginnings with the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the Kirk has held fast to a Calvinism that in one sense is more rigid than John Calvin's. Calvin's influence on John Knox, the great Scottish reformer, made him an architect of the Kirk's bulwark against the papacy. In 1647, Scottish delegates to the Westminster Assembly wed their church to a Confession of Faith that described the Pope as "AntiChrist, man of sin, son of perdition." The Archbishop of Canterbury's 1960 visit to Pope John tested the ground for all Protestantism...
...Shame!" cried conservative delegates in the camp of Glasgow's Rev. John Gray ("I'm Auld Kirk to the back teeth"), who insisted that the Kirk honor the Westminster Confession. "What fellowship can there be between light and darkness?" a minister shouted. When the resolution passed and the Kirk ruled that its Moderator could visit the Pope if invited, the conservative Free Church's journal thundered: "Instead of waiting cap in hand for an invitation from the Pope, we should be storming that bastion of AntiChrist with positive truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ...