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Communion. There remained one more duty for Elizabeth II to perform: to receive the Lord's Supper. The liturgy of the Holy Communion was said as the Archbishop led the Queen to the Communion rail. Kneeling, she removed her Crown and offered the oblation which custom demands of monarchs: "An ingot or wedge of gold, of a pound weight," and "a pall or altar cloth." Philip, her husband, stepped to her side, and while the choir sang the hymn, All People That on Earth Do Dwell, man & wife received the bread and wine. Together, they led the prayer...
...Custom in Creston, as in hundreds of small towns across the U.S., demands that the high-school kids take off after the annual senior prom and speed merrily around the countryside until dawn. As plans rolled along for the traditional all-night sprees, the elders frowned, though not entirely on moral grounds. Auto accidents worried them most: in the May 1-June 10 periods since 1946, 50 Iowa teen-agers have died on the highways, most of them on prom night. The all-night graduation rite has long been prevalent, but it took on a sort of tomorrow...
...Lord Mayors of London; another, Sir Henry Cole, helped to found the Victoria and Albert Museum and Albert Hall; still another, Lord Seaton, led the charge which routed the Old Guard at Waterloo. The school that these men attended changed little over the years. In matters of custom and costume, it was much the same in the more recent days of Critic Middleton Murry and Actor Michael Wilding as it had been back...
Other than winning the Straus Trophy, there is little tradition at Kirkland: a parade of chefs preceeds the Christmas dinner, and in the annual House plan, Hammond is obliged to take a low comedy part. "It is a poor custom which I've inherited," he grumbles goodnaturedly. Hammond does not regret the lack of formalities at Kirkland, however, for he thinks, "there is a certain tradition in not having a tradition...
...hard-working freethinkers, the Universalists, learned last week that they were soon to get a new General Superintendent. After 15 years in the office, the nearest a Universalist can come to being a bishop, Dr. Robert Cummins, 55, announced that he was retiring because "it has always been my custom to leave a church while I am still cherished." His suc cessor: peppy, Brooklyn-born Dr. Brainard Frederick Gibbons...