Word: clergyman
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...plenty of times when we were ready to chuck it," one young actress admitted, "but what could we do when Dame Lilian kept going on?" Dame Lilian Braithwaite, Arsenic's Abby Brewster and the English stage's Grand Old Lady, can be more frightening than bombs. A clergyman's daughter who has triumphantly passed almost 50 of her 70-odd years in the theater, she looks like anybody's sweet old grandmother. But she combines plenty of arsenic with her old lace...
High Churchman Wand will bring to his new job both scholarship and a firsthand knowledge of a clergyman's daily grind. London will also have a Bishop who speaks his mind. Sample: "If we wish to reform the nation, we must begin at the top with statesmen and politicians. I would like to see us governed by a government truly democratic . . . there should be an end to this outside government where the Prime Minister and his ministers go to Parliament with their minds already made up for them by outside influences...
Hustler. In Cambridge, Mass., a patrolman tore up a ticket for speeding after the clergyman-driver explained, "Officer, you have to hustle if you're going to save souls." Mother Love. In the Marianas Islands, G.I. Jimmy Anderson, wandering about on patrol, came across a hen sitting on a nest which contained one egg and one live hand grenade...
...asked years ago that he be buried-two carloads of flowers lay heaped beside the open grave. Near it were gathered friends, relatives, the new President of the United States, old neighbors, the secretaries and ambassadors. The Rev. Dr. W. George W. Anthony, a white-haired, white-surpliced clergyman, spoke the Episcopal burial service...
Chunky, beetle-browed Rev. Bernard Iddings Bell, 58, frequently chides the church he loves. This week at Dartmouth College, the Episcopal clergyman, taking a gloomy prophet's view of the San Francisco conference, spoke harsh words to Christians who want their peace both just and durable. Said...