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...vaudeville acts, served up in turn-of-the-century Manhattan with a father-doesn't-approve love story. June Haver, one of three overprotected daughters of a crotchety Irish widower (James Barton), defies the old man by going into show business and taking up with Showman Tony Pastor (Gordon MacRae). Another daughter (Marsha Jones), who has already defied him by marrying secretly, is expecting twins. The central gag: learning that one of the girls is pregnant, Barton suspects the worst of June. The music and dance routines strike an efficient, lusterless com promise between vaudeville of the Tony Pastor...
...Reverend John H. Leamon, pastor of the First Church in Cambridge, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon on June 18. He will be assisted by the Reverend Charles L. Taylor, Jr., Dean of the Episcopal Theological School...
...Young Pastor Rushford put his hope in the old practice of tithing, with which the Northern Baptist Convention has recently had much success. He began by setting his farmer congregation an example. Out of his own salary of $2,000 a year, he returned $200 to the church. Over & over again in his sermons he reminded his flock that tithing was the Christian standard. "We are what we are because God created us," he said, "and for our love for the Lord, tithing should only be the minimum of what...
...ball had been set rolling. Farm prices were riding high, and other farmers began to tithe. This week Pastor Rushford preached his first sermon in a bright new church, complete with a modern kitchen, social room, children's department, and a 60-ft. spire. The church cost $100,000; of this, $60,000 is already in the bank, and the remaining $40,000 is scheduled to be paid off within five years...
...Pastor in Pistachio. Business, by earthly standards, was good indeed. Tom worked up a wardrobe of 46 expensive suits (favorite: a pistachio-green gabardine), a flock of screaming sport shirts and cowboy jackets, 200 pairs of cowboy boots, some worth $200. "I like to keep my feet covered," explained Brother...