Word: hegger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...priest who wants to break with the Roman Catholic Church is helpless,'' says the Rev. Herman Johannes Hegger, 46, a minister in the Calvinist Church of The Netherlands. "He needs somebody, just for the simple things in life, because he is actually left on the street without a penny and without a decent suit." Hegger should know-he was once a Roman Catholic priest himself. This week, Hegger will open Europe's first organized haven for ex-priests: a 17-room house in the village of Velp. near Arnhem. To be known as the Wartburg. in memory...
...book's 814 pages (excluding check list and index), there are vivid scenes of triumph and disaster. There is the occasion, soon after the success of Main Street, when Lewis' crisply arrogant first wife, Grace Hegger, was introduced at a party as "Mrs. Lewis." Said she: "Please, Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. Even my dentist says, 'Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, spit...