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...prisoners wash first themselves and then their forks, knives and plates. The floors of their cells are often of the original chill flagstone; their mattresses are made of coarse coconut fiber; more often than not, their daylight filters in through heavily barred fortress windows eight feet up. Aside from chapel, most prisons have no assembly halls, and today more than 6,000 men sleep three to a room in cells originally intended for solitary confinement. What Rab Butler is after is nothing less than a head-to-toe overhaul of the whole penal system...
...widowhood, Comedienne Portland Hoffa, 54, professionally zany co-player in Allen's Alley with her late husband, radio's raspy Satirist Fred Allen, announced that she would be married this week to an old friend. Adman and sometime Bandleader Joe Rines, 56, in the same actors' chapel where Chorine Hoffa and Vaudevillian Allen were married 32 years ago-St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church on Manhattan's West Side...
...white desert of the geographic South Pole, a house of worship was dedicated last week. Its congregation: the 17 men of the Deep Freeze IV outpost in Antarctica. The "Chapel of Our Faith" began when the outpost's recreation building, where religious services had been held, caved in under the weight of snow. Navy Petty Officer C. Norman Engel, 37, of Spring Lake. N.J., requested permission to build a chapel in its place out of spare lumber, and all members of the group worked at the project-painting, decorating, or just shoveling snow...
...square, gable-roofed chapel is topped by a cross and a steeple, which will eventually contain a bronze bell. Inside is an altar surmounted by a reversible cross (plain on one side, a crucifix on the other) and a picture of Christ. Flanking the picture are plaques bearing, respectively, a Star of David and a lotus leaf to symbolize Buddhism. The chapel's congregation contains at least one representative of Protestantism. Catholicism, Judaism and Buddhism, and each will take turns giving Sunday sermons on his faith. The group at first regretted that they had no Moslem, but then decided...
...Harvard Freedom Council will sponsor a talk next week by Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times. Matthews will discuss his recent visit to Cuba, on Monday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m., in the Chapel Room of Phillips Brooks House...