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...William Wright, 48, rector of St. Clement's Protestant Episcopal Church in El Paso, lives in an area where Christian belief is strong and fundamental. Wright himself prefers a more intellectual approach toward religion, and says so. Recently, in a speech to the El Paso Bar Association, he declared that reason is as good a guide to religion as faith is. He denounced fundamentalist camp meetings, popular in West Texas, as "emotional whingdings that provide a vacation from thinking." Added Episcopalian Wright, attacking belief in Biblical accounts such as that of Jonah and the whale: "Who does believe those...
...Committee" has been formed to petition for the removal an economics professor at the California institute of Technology and the wife of the dean of the University of Southern California's School of Religion. The two are the only board members whose terms run past June when the conservative clement hopes to elect a completely new board...
...have one quibble with the Lampoon which concerns a story titled "O.D. Christmas," signed by one "CBW." There is no CBW visible on the 'Poon's masthead these days, but avid followers of the magazine like myself will remember a Clement B. Wood who enhanced the magazine's pages in the Good Old Days of '47, '48, and '49. Perhaps he has sent in some new material to revive a lagging Lamphoom, but I doubt it. If the story is a re-print, and I rather think it is, the Lamphoom has an obligation to its readers to so identify...
Rebellious Nye Bevan automatically took a back seat in Parliament nearly two years ago when he resigned the Labor Ministry and began his long feud with then Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Last week Rebel Nye moved up front again. By the narrowest of squeaks, the Laborites in Parliament voted him into the twelfth place (out of twelve) in the Opposition's "shadow cabinet," which faces the real cabinet across the open floor of the House of Commons. It was a Pyrrhic victory for Nye, for as one of Labor's official Parliamentary spokesmen, sitting on the front bench...
...House of Commons, where no King or Queen is allowed to enter, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and other members of government and loyal opposition waited in fidgety silence until the stentorian cry of "Black Rod!" was heard in the corridors. A moment later General Sir Brian Horrocks, Black Rod himself, knocked three times on their lobby door and, bowing, commanded "this honorable House to wait upon Her Majesty immediately in the House of Peers...