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...parish priests take in a broken-down movie actress and-bingo!-pretty soon she stars at a benefit for them. Next week in Manhattan, blonde dynamo Betty Hutton, 53, who hurtled through some 20 musicals in the '40s and '50s, will be the big-name attraction at a $50 and $100 a plate dinner to raise money for St. Anthony's Church in Portsmouth, R.I. On hand for the occasion will be some 300 of her friends and admirers, including Arlene Dahl, George Jessel and Kate Smith. Betty had fetched up on the rectory doorstep last February...
...that group's annual "roast" of politicians, the J.P.E. staged its own bash: a $7.50-a-head, beer-and-chili evening to benefit the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press. Entertaining the sellout crowd of 800 were such Gridiron defectors as Senator Ed Muskie, running a bingo game; former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, autographing his doodles for auction (highest price was $1,000); Senator Adlai Stevenson III, taxi-dancing; CBS's Dan Rather, selling kisses for 50 cents; and Martha Mitchell, who offered to call anyone, anywhere, about anything-for $5. At least one Congressman...
...plan, the Church Times provided Ladbroke's with some of the names and chances of the 13 likely candidates. Early favorite, the Most Rev. Donald Coggan, Archbishop of York, is now tied at 3 to 1 with Bishop John Howe. Not everyone has greeted this extension of weekly bingo in the church hall with delight, however. Mrs. Rosalind Runcie, wife of the Bishop of St. Albans, the Rt. Rev. Robert Runcie, currently quoted at 7 to 1, declared herself to be extremely embarrassed. She said: "It's revolting to turn important church affairs into a horse race...
...genial sort of fellow who solves parish problems so deftly that he has plenty of time to write and croon catchy tunes. Others, whether Catholic themselves or not, view priests as troubled souls who may soon debark from the ministry to marry, or simply as the impresarios of weekly bingo games...
Agnate played with his yellow "I'm Number One for 'Big Al' Vellucci" button and added, "He's the only man in Cambridge who gives out free meals to the elderly, sets up bingo games and passes out Christmas baskets to the needy. He's the poor-man's candidate...