Word: clergyman
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...German of obvious good will, author and clergyman Albrecht Goes (himself a chaplain in World War II) seems more at home with a podium under foot than a pen in hand. His "good German" chaplain is a preachy bore who loves Beethoven and quotes Goethe, thrills to the "knightly shimmer" of a dashing captain headed for certain death at Stalingrad. But if Hitler's Germany had had the same ratio of soul-searching Hamlets as Unquiet Night, the Fiihrer's Wehrmacht would have been reduced to a hard core of about a platoon...
...contrive the assassination of anyone." The real moral of the story is as plain as Mao meant it to be: outsiders are no longer safe in Red China. Riva and Yamaguchi are the first foreigners to be sentenced to death as counterrevolutionaries, while Bishop Martina is the first Catholic clergyman to be sentenced to life in prison. He is fairly big game, as acting representative in Peking for Archbishop Antonio Riberi, papal internuncio for China, who is under house arrest in Nanking...
...Republican machine in Philadelphia, which has been emitting a murky odor from its City Hall exhaust, had a new man at the wheel last week. With the machine's help, the Rev. Daniel Alfred Poling, 66, internationally known Baptist clergyman, newspaper columnist, editor and Christian Endeavor leader, won the Republican nomination for mayor...
...always had a taste for handsome women, and the year of his divorce he married Helen Wismer, a clergyman's daughter, Mount Holyoke graduate and the former editor of a string of pulp magazines. She expertly manages his business affairs and his home, and has helped him enormously in conquering his blindness. The Thurbers spend part of every winter and spring in Hot Springs, Va. and Bermuda. Summer and fall they live in their beautiful twelve-room, go-year-old house on 65 acres of land in West Cornwall, Conn...
...court and in his column, Lawyer Lyons said that he would not obey any such order, portentously proclaimed that relations between columnist and tipster are as sacred as the relations between "client and lawyer, physician and patient, confessor and clergyman." (Snapped Lyons' fellow columnist Walter Winchell: "Let him go to jail. It will give me a big laugh...