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Though he has made many a fast buck on movie scripts lately (Church of the Good Thief, Ladies Day), Considine has no intention of deserting Hearst for Hollywood. Says he: "Last year I spent time in Palm Springs, Paris and Mexico City. I covered the Kentucky Derby and talked to the Pope. I even saw the World Series. It's a pretty good...
...highway near Olivet, Mich., a tiny (pop. 800) town where nearly everyone votes Republican and goes to the Congregational Church, there stands a welcoming sign: "Olivet, a village of friendly folk, home of Olivet College . . ." Last week, friendship was on trial in Olivet and in the coed college on the hill...
Many townsmen agreed. Some referred to the college as "little Bohemia." The Rev. Thomas W. Nadal, pastor of the Olivet Congregational Church, said it was in "a state of anarchy." Furthermore, gifts were dropping off and endowments were sagging. New President Ashby decided it was time for a change...
...several years a group of 15 private schools near the most fashionable part of Manhattan's Park Avenue has held an annual series of nondenominational vesper services. At the first of this year's services, held in the Episcopal St. James' Church, the Rev. Laurance I. Neale of the Unitarian Church of All Souls was one of the officiating clergymen. To one Protestant prelate this was carrying Protestant unity a little too far. Last week, retired Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning, 82, took sharp note of it in a letter to two New York newspapers...
...Unitarians honestly disbelieve and deny the facts and truths about the Lord Jesus Christ declared in the Christian Creed. At every service in an Episcopal Church that creed is solemnly recited before the altar by the clergy and the people together. Is it consistent for one who represents definite denial of that creed to be asked to take official part in a service which is based wholly upon belief in it? Would it be consistent to ask an earnest and convinced Marxian Communist to take official part in a meeting held to pay honor to the Constitution of the United...