Word: evensong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the five-year-old magazine would cease publication with its Aug. 18 issue. Successor to the venerable weekly Southern Churchman, founded in 1835, Churchnews strove for a snappy, newsy approach ("Old North Church Will Wheeze No More," "Vicar's Worry: They Love 'Lucy' More Than Evensong"). But the magazine never really managed to make church trade news sound lively, and beefing up the contents with big-name articles by Historian Arnold Toynbee, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and Sportscaster Red Barber was not enough. Anonymous backers spent an estimated $650,000 trying to get Churchnews off the ground...
...champions of Britain's workingman, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury Cathedral, was in the embarrassing predicament of a big employer with a wage dispute on his hands. Early this year Party-Liner Johnson's choristers, restricted to part-time outside jobs because they must warble Evensong at 3:15 p.m. five days a week, asked for a pay hike from $675 a year to $1,000. No strike was threatened, but Dr. Johnson and his chapter cohorts thumbed down the raise, summarily suspended the choristers' spokesman on a handy pretext. Last week, with the suspended...
...EVENSONG...
...once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong...
Shortly after Evensong one evening last week, a man in an overcoat climbed to the lectern of St. Paul's Cathedral and pointed a pistol toward the great dome. No one made a move to stop him. Two shots, shattering the gloom of the church, made a noise like an artillery barrage booming across nave and transept. For twelve seconds the reverberations echoed...