Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last-moment hitch developed in the well-laid wedding plans of Cinemactor Errol Flynn, 41, and Hollywood Dancer Patrice Wymore, 23, when a French Lutheran clergyman suddenly withdrew the use of his church. The twice-divorced groom scurried about, thought he had found another, an abandoned church in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. Other reported plans: a civil ceremony in Monaco with an army guard of honor, peasants dancing in the streets, followed by a one-day honeymoon, the shortest of Flynn's career...
...Richard Reusch is a short, slight (5 ft. 2 in., 110 Ib.) Lutheran missionary of 58 who chose to work among one of the fiercest tribes in Africa-the blood-drinking, spear-wielding Masai. Going back to Tanganyika from his last furlough in the U.S., he had two practical gifts: a tractor presented to him by St. Paul's Church in St. Paul, Minn, and "a splendid shotgun" given by the First Lutheran Church in Worthington, Minn. He has used the first to grow corn, beans and tobacco, the second to shoot "three lions and many hyenas." His days...
...Methodist minister gave the invocation, the Lutheran minister led responsive readings, and Father Kampson of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church pronounced the benediction. Mrs. Einar Olson and her son Ronald played the prelude and postlude. She pumped the old parlor organ and Ronald did his best with an ancient upright piano...
Martin Niemöller began as a fighting man. After serving as a U-boat commander in World War I, he became a popular Lutheran minister at Berlin's fashionable Jesus Christus Kirche. The Nazis found him cooperative at first, but by 1937 he was arrested for his stubborn refusal to knuckle under to their church-control regulations. He was kept in concentration camp for eight years...
...Abundant Life. In Seattle, the Central Lutheran Church bulletin said that while the pastor was on vacation, Assistant Pastor Luther Jansen would be "in complete charge of church services and pastoral cuties...