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...most Protestants (and many Roman Catholics), the Mass is a formal, mysterious ritual which typifies a formal, mysterious church. Last week Monsignor Ronald A. Knox, famed British scholar and detective-story writer, published a cheerful, witty, informal book called The Mass in Slow Motion (Sheed & Ward; $2.50). Designed to explain the mysterious Latin mumble-jumble of the Mass, the book combines reverence with readability...
...colorful visitors at the opening last week were the Russian and Eastern Orthodox representatives-bearded patriarchs like Archimandrite Vitaly of Russia, Archbishop Panteleimon of Greece and Metropolitan Germanos, Greek Orthodox exarch for Western Europe. Largest national block is the 78 bishops from the U.S. led by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. Many of the Americans brought wives & children along (their billeting, in universities and private homes, has been the special concern of Mrs. William Temple, widow of the late Archbishop of Canterbury). While the bishops deliberate in Lambeth Palace, their wives will have a conclave at High Leigh, a large...
...readers of the New Hampshire Morning Union (once owned by the late Frank Knox), 42-year-old Publisher William Loeb explained in a front-page editorial why he was running a two-column story on Wallace's visit. Wrote Loeb: "We are giving Henry Wallace . . . more space in our paper than [his visit] deserves . . . Because we dislike him so much, we want to be sure we are doing the right thing...
...Frank Knox Fellowship for study in the British Commonwealth went to Joseph Dee Everingham '49, of Clear-water, Florida, and Kirkland House, while the Augustus Clifford Tower Fellowship for study in a French university was gained by John Marshall Alcorn '45 of Pontiac, Illinois, and Eliot House. Both men are in History and Literature...
...when Mary Stuart, Queen of the Scots, brought her court to Edinburgh, Knox cried: "The preachers were wondrous vehement in reprehension of all manner of vice, which then began to abound; and especially avarice, oppression of the poor, excess, riotous cheer, banqueting, immoderate dancing, and whoredom that thereof ensues." Knox titled one famous pamphlet "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women...