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Armstrong Circle Theatre (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A semi-documentary dramatization of last March's prison riot in Walpole, Mass., during which the warden, chaplain and guards were seized as hostages, soaked with gasoline and threatened with fiery death...
...rather a good thing. "Interest in religion here is keen and sharp," the Rev. Richard E. Mumma of the First Congregational Church has asserted, "one uses his head as much as anything else in being religious." A similar view was expressed by the Rev. Ronald D. Maitland, Acting Chaplain of Christ Church (Episcopal): "It's a very good thing that there is less interest in religion (as opposed to faith or theology); our whole tradition is against institutional religion." Ministers generally feel that although students may prefer intellectual religion to the traditional church-going type, they will return to their...
...California delegates: the Santa Clara chapter of 40 & 8 had lost its charter after admitting an American of Chinese ancestry. In the 90° temperature of Minneapolis Auditorium, the oratory came to a boil. "Those who would introduce bigotry in our organization," cried the Rev. Edward Goodwin, chaplain of the Hawaiian Department, "are bastards of Satan!" But when all the shouting was over, the American Legion voted 1,650 to 1,388 to sustain the 40 & 8 Society in its lily-white stand...
...children born to an Arkansas farmer and his two wives. At twelve, Liston had an argument with his father, ran away to live with his mother in St. Louis. He later landed in jail after helping to hold up a restaurant. There Liston learned to read, met a chaplain who interested him in boxing. Liston studied Joe Louis' My Life Story by the hour, soon was prison champion, emerged to win the intercity Golden Gloves heavyweight championship...
...guests for the remaining week are: July 12, Dr. Heiko Oberman, HDS; July 19, Rev. John Vannorsdall, Lutheran Chaplain, Cornell; July 26, Rev. Robert Dodds, Second Congregational Church, Waterbury, Conn.; August 2, Dean Samuel Miller, HDS; August 9, Rev. Chalmers Coe, Hartford Seminary Foundation; August 16, Rev. Roger Johnson, Summer Vesper Services...