Word: parsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ministers agree, is when a fellow needs a fiend. They remind Mephisto that "a woman's chastity is a sty in the Devil's Eye.'' and point out the perfection that has caused his infection-the virgin daughter (Bibi Andersson) of an innocent country parson (Nils Poppe). "Where innocence is greatest.'' Mephisto murmurs wickedly, "evil is nearest...
...those days, a man of the cloth could set a good table, collect a few rare books, and lay down some decent port. But today's private incomes have been wiped out by inheritance taxes, tithes were abolished in 1936, and most glebe lands have been sold. The parson draws his pay from a body known as the Church Commissioners, which acts like a body of church mice-60% of the pastors earn less than $2,100 a year (compared with a U.S. Episcopal pastor's average salary...
...privilege or sell it. Thus a priest in search of a parish is never sure to what kind of patron he must sell himself. In Acle, Norfolk, for example, it is Brigadier Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe; in Parracombe, Devon it is the Misses Nind; Colonel Pine-Coffin picks the parson for St. Andrews Alwington, Devon; and Mrs. Power Clutterbuck holds sway in Ozleworth, Wotton-under-Edge. "The clergy," says the Rev. Lewis Roberts of Peasmarsh, "is the only profession without some trade union to help it improve its pay and condition...
MERGER COCKTAIL is being mixed by National Distillers (Old Crow, Gilbey's) and Bridgeport Brass Co. to create bigger National Distillers, with assets of $625 million. As unlikely at first glance as marriage of a parson and a show girl, merger would actually make good sense because National, second biggest U.S. maker of polyethylene (first: Union Carbide), also owns 60% of Reactive Metals, Inc. (zirconium, titanium, tantalum, columbium), managed by Bridgeport...
Jack Kennedy carefully chose his ground for his counterthrust on religion, and it was plainly hostile ground. Looking something like a parson himself, dressed in severe black suit and black tie, he strode purposefully into the ballroom of Houston's Rice Hotel last week to address and be questioned by the Greater Houston Ministerial Association under the eye of a statewide TV. Nervously he worked his thumbs together, rubbed his fists back and forth, sipped water several times as he waited through the introductions and opening prayer. "What's the mood of the ministers?" he asked his press...