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...dream parish," says Father Clement H. Kern. "I'm so lucky. Almost every seminarian hopes to get a church like this, but there aren't very many of them left...
...Father Kern's dream parish, the Roman Catholic Most Holy Trinity Church, is located in a rundown, ramshackle Detroit slum, where sagging frame houses, tarpaper shacks and old brick duplexes are slowly giving way to warehouses and trucking garages. This is Corktown, once as Irish as its name, and the big white church, which has been in its present location since 1855, still sports a trim of faded Kelly green. But the Irish have moved on and up in the world; Corktown is now made up primarily of Mexicans, Negroes fresh from the South, Puerto Ricans and Maltese...
...fund-raising organizations and church administrators, the conception of the parish church as the beating heart of a community is growing steadily rarer. But Holy Trinity is a relic of the more personal past, preserved by poverty. "We're an island in the affluent society," says Father Kern. "Most people just don't believe there are poor any more. But there are plenty of them. We painted the church and parish house bright white for a reason. The incoming people hear that there's a big white place where they can get help. There is no organization...
...newspapers as though they were rare and lovely gems. But after his death in 1951, control of his empire passed to a businessmen's trusteeship far more interested in profits than in jewel collecting. In recent years, Hearst Corporation President Richard E. Berlin and General Manager Harold G. Kern have kept the bill collector from knocking too loudly by trading off, every now and then, one of the less profitable baubles from the old chain. In 1956, they sold the Chicago American. Three years later, they merged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard's News, characteristically...
...Kern's estate waited so long to cash in on the contents of the safe? "Miss Crawford offers the auspices we have waited for,'' said Kern's daughter (wife of Hollywood Producer Jack Cummings). "After all, the songs are no good in a bureau drawer." It was possible, too, suggested his longtime collaborator, P. G. Wodehouse, that the melodies-until now heard only by a handful of people-would turn out to be something less than Golden Bantam Kern...