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...trifling event breaks up the humdrum of routine. It is the parochial world of pastors, curates and their parishioners. The mocked and pitied heroes of Powers' short stories are usually worldly U.S. Roman Catholic priests who have mislaid their sense of vocation in the hubbub of parish politics, bingo socials and Legion of Decency campaigns. Illinois-born and Catholic-reared. Author Powers brings an unsparing eye and a spare style to the subject of priestly frailty, but writes with enough basic compassion to avoid mere anticlericalism. He shares the front rank of present-day U.S. short story writing with...
...first nationwide opinion poll of Methodists. Among those polled, total abstinence from alcohol was endorsed by 68.9%, slightly more than were opposed to breaking the speed limit (67.7%). But despite a "clear warning of the church against games of chance," a few more than 50% saw nothing wrong in bingo, and the onetime Methodist sin of dancing is now frowned on by only 15.2%. Condemned by about 95%: profanity and the misrepresentation of a product "in trying to make a sale...
...Luce "Man of the Year," Harlow Curtice becomes the new president of Harvard. He will discuss a merger with the Ford Foundation. The Board of Overseers declare that there are no plans for further expansion but Curtice will say "Harvard grows with the nation." The Divinity School will attack Bingo, while Bundy is sent to help Admiral Byrd...
Circulation v. Implication. Magazines that have accepted the ads, said Father Graf, "will corrupt the minds of our youth." He called the puzzles "gyp lotteries," reminded the A.C.U. that the House of Bishops opposes bingo and other gambling. Furthermore, he implied, the whole business was unsound: "If less than $315,000 is grossed," he said, "then the A.C.U. will receive not one cent. How in conscience can a church organization take such a gamble with its reputation and its contributors' money...
...some Protestant clergymen were as zealous playing bingo as they are fostering birth control, this country would be in a much healthier moral state...