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...Peter's. The Rev. John Perry, he thought, would be delighted to baptize his two-month-old daughter, Christine Margaret; the vicar had married the Fillers years before, and Dennis had been a lifelong member of St. Peter's in the East End district of Hackney. But at the church, Dennis Filler was told flatly that, considering his spotty record of churchgoing, he would have to take religious instruction before his child could be baptized...
Since Vicar Perry came to his Hackney parish four years ago, his policy of no baptism without regular church attendance has boosted the average number of Sunday communicants. Backed up by his bishop, Perry said last week: "To a lot of people, who have not been inside of a church since they were married, baptism is a good excuse for a party. But they have to realize that this is one of the church's great sacraments . . . If a man is to become a bus driver, then he has instruction. A Christian should have the same. In a pagan...
Subtitled "The Literary Debris of Mitchel Hackney," Wallach's new one is especially funny because of its novel gimmick. Hackney, says Wallach, is one of the great unsung literati of our era, great because he managed to do everything years before it was done by the person we credit with doing it. Hackney, for instance, out Saroyaned Saroyan and out-Bellowed Saul Bellow, and did it first. "Gutenberg's Folly" is therefore a labor of love: dying from a surfeit of chopped liver canapes, Hackney willed Wallach his wife and his work...
...hard to pick a "best." But if such a choice must be made, I'll place my money on "A Practical Guide to the Fat Life," which neatly hangs a literary tin can on Norman Vincent Peale. In describing his spiritual counsel to a would-be business executive, Hackney says, "I took his hand and led him toward the analyst in the vestry room. 'The raccoon,' I continued, 'always washes his food before eating. Why not 'raccoon' your mind?... Since then that young man has risen from envelope-sealer for Eastern Steel to the ownership of one of the largest...
Check & Double Check. Darke did all the things a good Communist is supposed to do, rose a bit in the hierarchy, was elected borough councilor of Hackney in London's East End. was an active member of half a dozen organizations, conducted his bus full time, and seldom saw his wife and children. It took him almost two decades to decide that he was acting like a "demented lunatic." Meanwhile, he wore his exhaustion from overwork proudly, like battle scars or a medal...