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...Negley Parson, onetime foreign correspondent, exhibitionist autobiographer (The Way of a Transgressor), took time out from novel writing for a small transgression in North Devon, England. A constable caught him driving drunkenly through Wollacombe, hauled him into court. Cost: ?25, license suspended for a year. But Author Farson found it all rather pleasant. "They were awfully nice to me," said he. "The constable took me to the police station and he, the police inspector, their two wives and I all had tea together...
Neighborhood Talk. Wrote Baptist Parson J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, Tex., long known as the "wild man of the Southern Baptist Church": "Since you have come out and endorsed Communistic Russia, the worst bunch of bandits in history, you should resign instantly . . . the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention...
From a poem. by the Rev. George Crabbe, a 19th-Century English parson-poet, Librettist Montagu Slater had fashioned a psychopathic case history of a sadistic Suffolk fisherman. The first scene is an inquest into the murder of Peter Grimes's boy apprentice. Peter Grimes is exonerated, but the townspeople-fishermen, harlots and scowling drunks-still suspect him and set out to persecute him. Peter takes another apprentice to work for him, and the second boy dies in an accident. The villagers hold Peter responsible and drive him out to sea to drown himself. The score is Mozartian...
...serve Boston's Unitarian First Church until the congregation could find the right man. Charles E. Park, an India-born missionary's son, was sure his new post would be only temporary-for one thing, he did not even hold a Bachelor of Divinity degree. But humble Parson Park proved to be exactly the "right man" for his church. Today he is recognized as the Grand Old Man of U.S. liberal pulpits...
...provincial circuit, adopted a cautious politician's line. He told disgruntled Tories that their best hope for a return to power was not to commit themselves to a program but to widen the party's field "and bring in all who want free progress." "Like the parson who was against sin." he said, "I am against Socialism. . . . The great conflict to come will be fundamentally a conflict between God and the anti-Christ." His audiences applauded the generalities, but were not satisfied. "It's not good enough," said one young lady listener. "We want something more concrete...