Word: fane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coventry Cathedral, almost obliterated by German bombs, will rise again. But the new fane, as described last week by Coventry's Bishop Neville Vincent Gorton, will be an innovation among Anglican Cathedrals. The striking change will not be in architecture (it will be modernized Gothic, designed by famed Roman Catholic architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott), but in the cathedral's interdenominational character...
Other considerations may also have inclined Dean Dun to make haste slowly. Well does he know that Washington's Bishop is expected to be a go-getter, to spend much time raising millions to finish the half-completed Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul, the majestic fane abuilding on Mount St. Alban for the past 36 years. Like all liberal Episcopalians, Dr. Dun, a great proponent of unity with Presbyterians, does not consider cathedrals important, would much rather be "a real pastor to the parish ministers" in the diocese...
SEEING IS BELIEVING-Carter Dickson -Morrow ($2). At an English party, Vicky Fane, under a hypnotic spell, is forced to stab her husband with a rubber dagger-which changes to steel as she drives it home. Irascible Sir Henry Merrivale, interrupting the dictation of his libelous memoirs, supplies a transparently simple solution to an apparently insoluble problem. Good mental exercise and robustly amusing...
Manhattan's Town Hall, No. 2 fane of music for the U. S. faithful*, was well packed one night last week. It had been sold out for four days-good news in a season that had not begun too well for concert managers. Cause of the turnout was a brown, dignified, warm-smiling woman, in a billowy, pumpkin-colored gown which failed to add much to her melony 4 ft. 10 in. Negro Soprano Dorothy Maynor, just past her 30th birthday, had begun her second concert season...