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Whenever Hollywood's box office slips, as it did last month,* puzzled moviemen ponder such possible causes as the weather, the crops and the local bingo games. Last week a fledgling producer, Novelist Polan (There Goes Lona Henry) Banks, offered a fresher theory: Hollywood has been underestimating the power of a woman. Banks told the Motion Picture Herald...
...Iona craftsmen spend their nine months on the mainland at their regular jobs, the ministers-each of whom has signed up for two years-go forth to preach in small towns, organize community projects in crowded industrial cities, or work in parishes that' are trying to apply the lona principles...
...with its logical conclusions. Last summer it held a week-long conference on divine healing (addressed by blind Godfrey Mowatt, the Archbishop of Canterbury's representative on the Council of Healing, and said to be gifted with the power to cure by laying on of hands). And recently lona has organized a Christian Workers League, whose members seek to work on the corporate bodies of trade unions, capturing control of them with the same infiltration tactics used by the Communists...
Prayer & Poverty. During the nine years of its existence, lona has attracted some 180 "minister associates" in the Church of Scotland; some 380 "women associates" who meet at intervals and observe a modified Rule of living, and approximately 7,000 worldwide "friends," who contribute a yearly $1 and receive the Community's semi-annual publication, the Coracle...
...inner core of lona is still the Community, composed of the ministers who enroll for the two-year course of training and pledge themselves to devote half an hour each morning to prayer and Bible-reading. All members also seek to keep their personal expenditures down to Britain's national average income-$720 a year for a single man, $320 more for a married one, plus $240 for each child. Members' accounts are kept openly and discussed among themselves at regular intervals-items over and above the national average can be justified if they are "for the glory...