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...Thames-side village of Cookham, the venerable Norman Church of the Holy Trinity last week was without a new minister; the post offers only $1,657 a year, and the outgoing pastor only managed because he rented out part of the vicarage as a furnished apartment. Elsewhere, a minister applied for a job as village postman to supplement his income, and the agony columns of the London Times recently carried a typical ad: "Anglican priest seeks private loan of ?300. Please help...
...Sally Hall and Lisa Thyne. They live in Cookham, outside London, with their families...
Died. Sir Stanley Spencer, 68, British artist who transformed the simple sights of his home town of Cookham into the great events of the Bible in paintings of flat, muted colors ("I saw many burning bushes in Cookham"), borrowed the faces of his neighbors for Biblical characters, and of his cousin, a milkmaid, for the Virgin Mary; in Taplow, England...
...Biographer Green's view, Grahame was a strange and troubled man, who never really left his own childhood. Young Kenneth's mother died when he was five, and his alcoholic father shipped him and three other Grahame children from Inveraray to the home of a grandmother in Cookham Dene. The grandmother and the other relatives who raised the children were far from monsters-at worst, reports Green, they were irritable and unimaginative. But to Kenneth they were, in his caustic description, "Olympians," given to religious hypocrisy, sticky sentiment, willful stupidity and dullness. Most damning of all, they allowed...
Eileen Dicks of Cookham, 30 miles west of London, rang up Betty Stevens in nearby Maidenhead. "I thought you'd like to know-we have a lovely case of German measles," she said. "Oh, how lovely!" said Mrs. Stevens. "Charles will be delighted. We'll be over next week to catch them." So Colleen Dicks, who had been threatened with cancellation of her ninth birthday party last week because she had German measles, had a party after all. As she blew out the nine candles Colleen presumably sent a virus-laden breath over Guest of Honor Antonia Stevens...