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Canada is supplying the most churches -7,226-to the new group. The U.S. has the second greatest number, with 6,240, followed by India with 5,328*and the British Isles with...
...large number of churches in Canada and India is accounted for by recent mergers of Congregationalists and other Protestant denominations to create the United Church of Canada and the Church of South India...
Fortnight ago, Decca recorded a frantic number by Negro Bandleader Buddy Johnson called Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? All 3,000 copies were sent up to Harlem. They sold out in a little more time than it takes for a home run to clear the wall at Ebbets Field. Sample...
...nothing much happens. In the course of the love story, Sweden's Viveca Lindfors is not only pleasant to look at, but appears to be an actress. Reagan plays the role of the epileptic with the abstracted air of a man who has just forgotten an important phone number...
Great Big Promiscuous You. Lewis' new book, based on a number of trips to the U.S. and a great deal of reading, may serve as a handy companion to Poet T.S. Eliot's recent Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (TIME, March 21). The two men agree in their diagnosis of contemporary cultural trends-and draw totally opposite conclusions. The religious decline deplored by Eliot does not ruffle Lewis, who believes that "Christianity, as a unifier, became a bad joke long ago." The loss of regional differences and "roots," lamented by Eliot, is a joy to Lewis...