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Today, Editor Dean is the big man of Sanford. "But," said Marlen Pew, "try to get Rolland Dean to say anything concerning his adventure-Editor & Publisher could...
...Marlen Pew, editor of Editor & Publisher, uncovered last week an amazing tale of the Florida celery belt...
...preachers. Police against preachers would play volleyball. If the police won, the preachermen would go to jail for an hour. If the preachers won, the cops would go to church the next Sunday and stay for the sermon. ... On Wednesday the games were played. Next Sunday in the front pew of the Episcopal church sat the police force. "God" cried Volleyman-Preacherman J. Lewis Gibbs in the pulpit "is on the side that hits the hardest volleyball...
...Protestant Episcopal Church is not established by the Government as is the Anglican Church in England. Otherwise its situation is largely parallel. High-church and low-church divisions obtain; pulpit-occupants are more likely than pew-sitters to swing to high-churchliness. Excitement in the U. S. was therefore stirred, last week, less by prospects of disestablishment in Great Britain than by the papal encyclical and its effects upon church unity...
...motion for approval was put by First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman, a Cabinet member, speaking, he said, simply in behalf of "the man in the pew." Premier Baldwin himself supported Mr. Bridgeman, pointing out that the proposed revision was a compromise between high and low church opinion. He warned that to deny the church her carefully chosen ground of compromise would be to weaken her authority to a point at which proposals to disestablish the Church might again be made. "How many members of this House," he concluded, 'believe that the Church would survive disestablishment...