Word: lunding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When theologians get together, nothing happens. Nevertheless, they get together occasionally. Last week 250 of them-representing 40 countries and virtually every Christian church but the Roman Catholic-met in the Swedish university town of Lund. They called their meeting the third World Conference on Faith and Order. The purpose: "To seek for the oneness of truth in Christ," i.e., to see whether there is any way of ironing out obstacles to real church union...
...first day, most of them went to Lund's 12th century cathedral for a joint Communion service. Then the delegates went into committee sessions to examine the premises of one another's faiths. At week's end, most of them had at least agreed on what they disagreed about. But each faction was as sure as ever that the best way to agree was for the other fellows to stop disagreeing...
...from Manhattan by air for Bombay. For the next two months they will visit universities and live in student hostels at Poona, Madras, Mysore and Travancore. There they will explain U.S. democracy to their Indian colleagues. "Some of us will soon have to do military service," said Mormon David Lund, 21 (who won $120 on a radio quiz show to help finance his trip). "It struck us that here we are ready to go to Korea and fight, but that right now we're not doing anything for our country ... I can face dying for my country...
Just Across the Street (Universal-International). Ann Sheridan plays a lady with problems in this warm-weather farce. She is a poor working girl who is the sole support of her old tosspot dad (Cecil Kellaway). Plumber John Lund, for whom she works, thinks she is the socialite daughter of Robert Keith and Natalie Schafer, and gallantly insists on driving her to & from a palatial home, when actually she lives just across the street from his plumbing shop. Naturally, this mistake leads to complications. After several reels of hot & cold running gags, the complications are cleared up, but by then...
...sold, at $475 an hour, to sponsors peddling beer, jewelry, insurance and pianos. Each night and dawning, televiewers see two feature films, two westerns and one episode of a serial (currently: Flash Gordon). Because "you can't call people up on a survey at 4 in the morning," Lund has no idea of the size of his audience, but there is no doubt that the show is going over. Swing Shift fan letters pour in at the rate of 350 a week. Sample: "Even if a guy has dinner at 1 a.m., he likes to relax afterward just like...