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Also in Los Angeles, the Rev. W. O. H. Garman, secretary of the strictly Fundamentalist American Council of Christian Churches, fired another short round of bird shot in his little organization's long standing feud with the mighty Federal Council of Churches.* Angry Parson Garman did not approve one bit of the Federal Council's national Conference on the Church and Economic Life, held last February at Pittsburgh (TIME, March 3). Cried...
...congregation to put a bob (no more) on the race. He added: "Though betting is a mug's game, to say that he who puts a shilling on the National is morally wrong is probably not true." Suggested the U.S. magazine The Blood-Horse: why doesn't Parson Clarke call his next sermon "Blessed Are the Pacemakers...
...observed, show an unexpected interest in their church -probably out of sheer homesickness. And church-sponsored social gatherings are livelier affairs than the stuffy whist drives at home. But the church's appeal is not all nostalgia. "Of course," says Selwyn cheerfully, "a great many people think a parson's a fool, and come to us for a loan with some cock & bull story about being robbed on the Metro...
Grounds. In Chicago, Frieda Orlowsky won a divorce when she explained that her husband's Army poker experiences had soured him on all card games, ruined their pleasant evenings of pinochle. In Los Angeles, Marie C. Bauman, calling an end to her 50-year marriage, complained that her parson-husband had abandoned his pulpit to play the ponies with his own "mathematical and scientific method...
Return Ticket. In River Edge, N.J., a policeman wrote the Rev. Walter J. Poynton a ticket, was forced to admit that he didn't have his own license with him, meekly accepted a ticket himself when the parson called another...