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When Detroit's religious leaders complained that the building was just a big sports palace, Studer pointed to the Y's religious program of Christmas and Lenten services, retreats, discussion groups. The clergy finally came around, showed it by twice electing Studer head of the Detroit Council of Churches...
...Lenten service in Chicago, Episcopal Theologian Bernard Iddings Bell delivered a crisply crushing answer to advocates of immediate world government...
When Mayor Curley ordered some revisions in "Flamingo Road" (on the ground that it was "an affront to the good people of Boston during the Lenten season"), there were plenty of good people of Boston who thought. His Honor had ulterior motives in discrediting the play. About the only thing noteworthy in the new Rowland Stebbins production is that Curley's critics are probably right: "Flamingo Road" is full of the sort of dirty Southern politics that some people say is paralleled in Boston...
...like many primitive peoples, they had observed a springtime period of self-denial to encourage germination of their new-sown crops. Church fathers readily admitted that Lent was in part an adaptation from pagan "natural religion." Then, as now, they also thought it not unfitting to remind Christians that Lenten self-denial is a good spring tonic for body as well as soul...
...River Cam at Cambridge the Americans did badly, but they made history. They made it by picking a girl to cox them for the Lenten bumping races...