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This strange confession was made Dec. 10 by a U.S. Marine who had been to Guadalcanal, New Caledonia, Tulagi, Bougainville. He was Combat Correspondent Sergeant Roy Maypole, 29, onetime radio soap-opera impresario. He spoke too soon. When the Marines landed on Bougainville's Empress Augusta Bay, Sergeant Maypole...
Richard Roswell Lyman, towering teetotaling, 73-year-old bigwig of the Mormons (5th-ranking member of th sect's Council of Twelve Apostles), was the subject of a brief, grim announcement from headquarters. "Notice is hereby given," it ran, "that after due hearing before the Council of Twelve Apostles...
Bernard Shaw wrote to Chesterton: "Faith is a curious thing. . . . You will have to go to Confession next Easter; and I find the spectacle-the box, your portly kneeling figure, the poor devil inside wishing you had become a Fire-worshipper instead of coming there to shake his soul with...
...confession, deaf-mute penitents are given a printed list of common sins, mark those they wish to confess, hand the paper to the priest. He writes the penance and instructions on the paper, then returns it. Others who wish to see him outside the confessional go to the rectory parlor and "whisper" their problems. A mute "whispers" by shielding his hand inside his partly opened coat as he signs. A woman makes signs behind her purse...
Source of Error. Confession is good for the soul of America, doubly so when it results in a useful book. Troubled, groping, weakened by many a long historical digression, U.S. Foreign Policy suggests that Pundit Lippmann is at a halfway point in the clarification of his views, has shed many...