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...majority. Their pay runs to three or four times what a nun teacher costs, yet is enough lower than public school pay to make them hard to recruit. These rising costs put an extra strain on the collection plate-and spur on such typically Catholic fund-raising gimmicks as bingo, raffles, cake sales and carnivals...
...first half hour in ward E-3 was spent playing bingo with three or four elderly patients. One of them mechanically placed bits of paper on her card, without saying a word or responding to suggestions that she was putting them on the wrong numbers. The other women were talkative enough, but the conversation never went beyond calling out numbers, and occasionally commenting who was winning. No one enjoyed the game--least of all the patients...
Insight & Farce. Bright but not brassy, Gregory's material ranges everywhere, from the possible ejects of President Kennedy's religion ("Four years of bingo") to the Israeli Abomb: "They want to find out if there's anything that will crack open a stale bagel." But the condition of the colored man is his main theme and night after night he plays it with grace...
...Girl Scout trade her merit badge for a wedding ring, for a fraternity pin, or just for the hell of it? Two of the girls (Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss) play it safe, and though they miss their fun they get their men. The third (Yvette Mimieux) plays "backseat bingo" and in the last reel finds herself all smashed up by an automobile. Not very subtle, but it squares the censor...
...charging that we're totalitarian." Father Weigand contributed to the ambiguous blur by announcing that if tithing was "not optional," it was not compulsory, either. Anyway, the "carnival atmosphere" will be ended at St. Joseph's for 1961, at least. A single exception: the Saturday night bingo games in the church's community center. Almost all the bingo players, Father Weigand noted, are from outside the parish...