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These days, a sermon is likely to start off with anything from a reference to Peanuts to a Bob Dylan song to a passage from Hugh Hefner's interminable Playboy philosophy. Dr. C. Edward Gammon of Fairlington Presbyterian Church in Virginia, for example, intends to base his Easter sermon on Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Gammon's point: George and Martha's play-long dialogue about their nonexistent son suggests contemporary man's inability to distinguish fantasy from reality. The Rev. A. Cecil Williams of San Francisco's Glide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: Secular Sermons | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

Corrigan will take over from the Federal Government's Defense Homes Corp. two of the nation's big wartime housing developments: Fairlington, across the Potomac in Virginia, with 3,439 apartment units; McLean Gardens, on the site of the old Evalyn Walsh (Hope Diamond) McLean estate, with 1,912 units. DHC tossed a 180-apartment development in Bremerton, Wash, into the bargain. Corrigan's end of the deal: $4 million cash, the balance on a 28-year mortgage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Texas Ranger | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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