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Pastor Martin Niemöller was packing his bags again. Since U.S. troops ended his eight-year imprisonment in concentration camps for defying Hitler, the lean, 57-year-old evangelical clergyman and ex-U-boat commander (World War I) has been known in Europe and the U.S. as German Protestantism's most dramatic spokesman. This week he is off to Australia...
...their heyday beards were valued for keeping women in their place, preventing chest colds and "clergyman's throat' for "[sucking] out the abundant and gross humors of the cheeks," for concealing weak chins, and for training, "like well-bred wall plants." Their combings made an excellent stuffing for cushions. When not being wagged, beards could be carried in a velvet bag (as was one 16th Century dandy's), or their ends were wrapped around a smart walking cane or twined in & out of the waist belt. At night, of course, the beard could serve as an extra...
...Louis, already tagged with a $500,000 alienation of affections suit by a Chicago clergyman named Matthew Faulkner, was named corespondent in the minister's divorce suit against Carolle Drake ("Mattie") Faulkner, a Manhattan model. Said Joe, whose own marriage broke up four months ago: "My relations with Mrs. Faulkner never went beyond the bounds of friendship...
...years ago, Father Benitez was a much sought-out member of her party. Madrid's press fairly sizzled. Ya wrote: "It makes one wonder whether the priest's mother had a weakness for a Frenchman." Editorialized Bilbao's El Correo Espanol: "A bilious and ill-adapted clergyman...
Rusk goes over the tedium and labor of Emerson's lectures with great detail. A reader not familiar with Emerson's writing might get from this book an impression that he was a rather colorless ex-clergyman who lived a good but uneventful life in a dull New England town, and that the chief distinction of his career was that he successfully avoided being monopolized by any person or idea...