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Humming on the Beach. Bristol's business is advertising - he is products advertising manager of the Bristol-Myers chemical firm, of which his father is president -and he has used the tricks of his trade in working out his hymnbook. Last summer he tested each hymn on a "representative panel of children" before selecting it. Writes Bristol: "When we actually heard the children humming some of the melodies on the beach, we felt certain we were on the right track." To help out at family songfests, Bristol and Friedell have included classifications not normally found in hymnals, e.g., "When...
...head of Rural Dean Cyril A. Wheeler. The back of his snowy surplice had burst into flame from a nearby candle. The dean looked startled, but stood quietly as Leighton's quick-thinking Vicar S. John Forrest hurried over and began beating him on the back with a hymnbook. In a moment the crisis was over. As the solemn Requiem Mass swept sonorously on ("Yet, good Lord, in grace complying, rescue me from fires undying"), Dean Wheeler hurried out to don a new surplice. "I felt unusually warm," he explained later, "but I didn't know...
Standing in the rain on a bridge spanning Chicago's Jackson Park Lagoon, Magician Claude Noble, hymnbook in hand, intoned to the watery sky: "Clarence Darrow, I am here in fulfillment of your pact made with me. If you can manifest yourself, do it now." It was the second anniversary of the death of the famed lawyer and agnostic. On the bridge whence his ashes had been scattered waited Darrow's widow, son, and a cluster of friends. There was no manifestation...
...figure of the pastor in the Lutheran ministerial garb behind the medieval wheel of torture, serving near the altar with the chalice, and participating in the service in a Lutheran edifice by singing from a hymnbook with uplifted, blessing arm under the glaring light falling upon him, permits only one interpretation...
...including the Dean himself, seized eagerly upon this suggestion. Even a diminutive and far from prominent member of the famed St. Paul's choristers got hold of the idea and made a rhyme about it which he passed around at choir practice behind the cover of a fat hymnbook. It seemed very funny because everyone was supposed to be so solemn...