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...calls from the outdoor pay phone near the lockmaster's office. The rawboned Driver town is hardly humming (KEOKUK, HOME OF LORI FROELING, MISS IOWA 1979, brags its welcome sign), but the residents are friendly, and alcohol, strictly forbidden on the boats, is amply available. John and Donna Coffield invited several of the stranded bargemen into their home for Christmas and New Year's. "The last time they came, they drank 26 pitchers of beer," recalls John, "and they claimed they weren't thirsty...
Enter the handsome aviator (Peter Coffield) and his passenger, the daredevil Polish acrobat Lina Szczepanowska (Patricia Elliott), Shaw's totally liberated New Woman. The third unexpected guest comes wielding a revolver. Gunner (Anthony Heald) proves to be Tarleton's illegitimate son, bent on revenge. This gives Shaw a chance to play the dialectical game of cat-and-mouse. Inevitably, Hypatia gets the aviator to chase her till she catches him. "Papa, buy the brute for me," she purrs to Tarleton. Papa does...
...Coffield did not return until after the election. By then, Proposition 14 had been opposed by every major California church leader except Mclntyre, but had been approved by two-thirds of the voters. Convinced that his cardinal's silence was wrong, Coffield asked for a three-year leave of absence from the archdiocese.* In Chicago he will work in a South Side Negro parish, study psychology at the University of Chicago...
Clerical Unrest. Chancery officials pointed out that "no administrative discipline" had been imposed on Coffield, and that despite his complaint against the cardinal, "Catholic clergy and laity are and always have been united in their support of racial equality." In fact, many Los Angeles Catholics think that their cardinal's otherwise excellent record is marred by an inability to understand the Negro's demand for equal rights now. Last year about a dozen priests took leave-more quietly than Coffield-from the archdiocese. Despite this clerical unrest, Mclntyre-a prince of the church subject only to the orders...
...Since the Council of Trent, priests who do not belong to a religious order have been bound to serve for life in the dioceses for which they are ordained. In order to leave Los Angeles, Coffield had to get explicit permission from both Mclntyre and Chicago's Albert Cardinal Meyer...