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Stephen Beasley Linnard Penrose Jr.,† 40, is an ex-Sunday-school teacher and an active Congregationalist. Last May he was made a lay preacher by the Mt. Pleasant Congregational Church (Washington, D.C.), but he is the first of A.U.B.'s four presidents not trained for the ministry.. Between Dodge and Penrose, there is another and more striking difference: Penrose is outspokenly pro-Arab. Resigning as a special adviser to Defense Secretary Forrestal last May, Penrose denounced U.S. recognition of the State of Israel in a letter to the New York Times...
...recording of Dark Victory, with Celeste Holm, and Walter Abel playing the leads and Walter Hampden as announcer. Next month the recording will be heard over 549 stations, including the Mutual Broadcasting System, as part of an ambitious effort to reach the 70 million Americans who belong to no church...
...self-denying love for Roxane," says that Cyrano made sense out of his existence "not by crying out in bitterness over his physical ugliness . . . [but] by making something out of himself." Listeners are told that it will be easier to win the battle with themselves if they have a church's guidance. Those who belong to no church are invited "to discover just how much help you can get when you receive that which only the church can give." In smaller cities, a local clergyman will come on for the local...
...long lifetime, tall, gentle-voiced Msgr. John L. Belford, who at 86 is pastor of Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity, has founded two parishes, built two churches and a convent, enlarged a school, and paid off debts in a manner which astounded his superiors. Other priests have often urged him to put down on paper the methods they had very good reason to respect. In the American Ecclesiastical Review last week, Msgr. Belford finally discussed his fund-raising techniques. Excerpts...
...famous Father Orr of Cambridge, Mass. . . . who was always called 'Billy,' [was once] asked, 'What is your specialty?' Billy hesitated an instant and then, in the rich brogue which made him famous, replied: 'My specialty is raising money for church purposes without giving scandal...