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...hero of To Every Man a Penny is a determinedly kindly French cleric. Abbe Gaston's trouble was that he took Christ's teachings literally. In word, thought and deed he kept trying to walk in His steps, and kept getting his shins kicked for his pains. The reader meets him in his Paris parish in 1914 when he is 35 and hopeful, leaves him near-blind, buffeted but beatifically resigned just before Novelist Marshall lets his typewriter cool. In World War I he fights as an infantry soldier, becomes a wounded hero and learns the worldly lesson...
...Anglo-Saxons. In Argentina, where the Peron regime until recently made much of its close kinship with Spain, the doctrine has won many a convert. But last week, hard on the heels of the failure of Argentina's trade agreement with Spain (TIME, April 25), a distinguished Argentine cleric was calling Hispanidad a lot of nonsense...
...priest contacted by phone at St. Paul's said that one of the priests connected with the Church and spoken to newsdealers about the sale of "From the Housetops." The cleric, who refused to give his name, said "we didn't want it around the Square...
...work. Next day he traded his Study by Candlelight, still wet, for five Japanese prints. The dealer, perhaps worried about getting his money's worth, had Vincent fill in the unpainted space with a quick sketch of one of the Japanese prints. The painting was sold to a cleric named Salles, then apparently passed through two more owners until, in 1917, it was sold to a café on the Rue des Petits Carreaux. What happened after that, how the painting eventually got to the bistro outside Paris, nobody seemed to know...
...Como ordered Don Luigi to leave Caravate. A matter of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, said the church authorities. The 800 citizens of Caravate stormed and raged. At a mass indignation meeting in the public square, rude things were said about church authorities in general and the Bishop of Como, a cleric of "considerable circumference," in particular...