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Mystery Story When Dorothy L. Sayers wrote a piece last week under the title "The Great Mystery," she had not returned to her old trade as a topnotch writer of mystery stories (Gaudy Night, Murder Must Advertise, Busman's Honeymoon). She was talking about the mystery of life after death, subject of a new London Sunday Times series (among future contributors: Bertrand Russell, the Aga Khan). Already noted as a translator of Dante and an able amateur theologian, Anglican Author Sayers gave a cogent and striking version of one Christian view of the afterlife...
...soon can we be married?" they asked the clerk, who shrugged: "Why not now?" Parry and Sandra looked at each other-and were married. After a fourday honeymoon, Parry was off once more, this time to tour Central and South America for the State Department...
...Politics, Religion. The electronic boy-meets-girl gambit began when self-styled "Master of Informalities" Art Linkletter, 44, read that some 14 million Americans belong to lonely-hearts clubs. Machiavellian M.C. Linkletter, who once put a crocodile in a woman's bathtub, and recently sent a honeymoon couple to Utah to prospect for uranium, called on Dr. Paul Popenoe of Los Angeles' American Institute of Family Relations. Popenoe pointed out that people get married in a haphazard way, then drew up a questionnaire of 32 items that affect marital relations (sex, race, religion, politics, weight, height, pets, drinking...
Ignoring her old suitor, Barbara put her trust in -the machine, and this week she will announce her engagement to John. Early next year Linkletter will buy the air passage for a Paris honeymoon. "It's not the natural thing," says John, "I'll grant you that. But Univac figured out a lot of things in advance which normally a couple doesn't find out until later." Univac had no comment...
...some remarkably unmusical music. Both of the big names have been replaced by other big names (June Allyson and Jack Lemmon), and the new people give it all they've got. But somehow the second night in that tourist cabin, like the start of a second honeymoon, is not quite the same as the first-especially when those well-known "walls of Jericho" go tumbling down...