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...huge sums of money, and moralists have frowned on trying to get something for nothing. But for good or ill, in one form or another, the lottery has been pressed into service for many a worthy cause-from financing the American Revolution to (in the form of bingo) the endowment of U.S. churches...
Where once they had only to pass a plate among Sunday attenders, churches nowadays raise money in ways that range from bingo to bonds. Fund raising brings up questions of taste, discretion, prudence and donor psychology that stir heated debates across the land. TIME correspondents, sampling opinion among churchgoers and ministers last week, found that the "crasser" gimmicks of fund raising are giving way, but only slowly, to various forms of direct donation...
...Bingo King Co., Inc., of Denver, reportedly the biggest maker of bingo equipment, says that business is better than ever before. Many clergymen find bingo playing the most embarrassing of fund-raising devices, and are openly grateful if it is outlawed by state or city ordinances. But 13 states have specifically legalized it; in New Jersey, churches and synagogues grossed $18.5 million last year, and in New York the take is even bigger...
Died. The Most Rev. Edmund Gib bons, 95, oldest Roman Catholic bishop in the U.S. and head of the Albany, N.Y., diocese from 1919 to 1954, a tireless crusader against child labor, salacious movies, bingo, and atheists of every sort, who once said of Thomas Edison, "I believe the publicity given to his lack of faith made him one of the greatest detriments to the world today"; in Albany...
Better to Belong To. Marked for purge were six men, including Assembly Majority Leader "Bingo Bill" Murphy and Assembly Appropriations Committee Chairman Peter Granata. Put on Percy's slate were such men as Dwight Eisenhower's brother Earl, 66, the public relations director of a suburban Chicago newspaper chain, which insisted that he resign his job to make the race; onetime Chicago Daily News Reporter and Scandal Sleuth George Thiem, and former TV Weatherman Clint Youle...