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...year 1384, a farmer came upon a Holy Host while plowing in his field in the Bavarian town of Creglingen. On that spot, the Lords of Hohenlohe-Brauneck decided to build a chapel, and it is said that so many pilgrims flocked to see the Host that the town was eventually able to afford the finest altarpiece money could buy. Then came the Reformation, and the pilgrimages ceased. For centuries the great carving was all but forgotten; only a trickle of travelers took the trouble to visit it until after World War II. Last week the Creglingen tourist office proudly...
...until 1880 that the sculptor of the altarpiece was even known. Many scholars doubted that it was originally intended for the out-of-the-way chapel at all. Yet the altarpiece did exactly fit the altar table, and at certain times the afternoon sun would stream through the western rose window to light up the face of the Virgin Mary. It was to Mary that the linden triptych was dedicated...
...their weaknesses, the igth cen tury theologians engaged the world in relevant conversation, but we have be come disengaged." And, as he put it in his first chapel address last year, "we have not yet faced up to many of the issues raised by the igth century and posed by the new sciences. The result is that theology has become largely irrelevant in many quarters and often incredibly dull." Presbyterianism itself, added Presbyterian McCord, "is still too large ly a bourgeois phenomenon. It has not touched the masses, nor has it challenged a rising generation of intellectuals...
...younger brother, Gordon Gray, onetime Assistant Defense Secretary, former president of the University of North Carolina and now national security adviser to President Eisenhower.) At Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, Bo Gray persuaded fellow students to smoke Prince Albert after he discovered that cigarettes were forbidden. After graduating from Chapel Hill ('29) he went to work as a Reynolds salesman...
Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). This time the program calls not on a person but on an institution: the Vatican. For half an hour Reporter Charles Collingwood looks at the Pope's private gardens, the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica...