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Some of Sturges' slapstick sequences (a Keystone cops' auto chase; no less than four people shoved into the swimming pool) are a waste of film and satire. But many another is classic cinema-especially the scene of a Negro pastor cautioning his flock against showing their superiority over the convicts who are coming to share the parishioners' Sunday night Mickey Mouse movie...
Scores of serious-minded young men in school and college ha ye felt that Dr. Mott was the greatest man in the world. (One now famous Manhattan pastor expressed this conviction so firmly in prep school that he was nicknamed "John...
...blamed the Athenia disaster on Britain, reportedly assailed Doenitz in a Cabinet meeting for "the ruthless sinking of the Athenia which has prejudiced neutrals." Propaganda Minister Goebbels is said to be coldly suspicious of the U-boat Admiral's close friendship for the daring onetime U-boat commander Pastor Martin Niemöller, whose services in Berlin Karl Doenitz attended right up to the time when Pastor Niemöller was jailed for preaching against the Nazis...
Fifty last week was Pastor Martin Niemöller, now in his fifth year in a Nazi concentration camp. In Britain the BBC celebrated his birthday with a German broadcast of his 1937 New Year's sermon on Germany's "de-Christianization" by "the forces of evil who despotically govern us." In the U.S. fellow German Thomas Mann paid tribute: "Here is a man who went his way to the cross with full awareness of the terror...
Nathaniel Bowditch was born in Salem in 1773. His father, Habakkuk, was un educated, but was said to be "not destitute of powers of mind," and was best remembered by his pastor for "his knowledge of the Scriptures and his extraordinary consumption...