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Last Sunday the young prince, accompanied by his two sisters, left the family pew at Rome's quiet little Church of St. Girolamo. Pierino appeared, a pistol in his outstretched hand. "You die!" he shouted, and fired five times. The prince drew his own pistol, but before he could aim he slumped backward...
...Pew. Dr. Bach's report to Protestants is a hopeful one: "Historic Protestantism," he says, "will continue to dominate 'Church Street' just as it has since the birth of American freedom." His early crusade for church unity in Fairfield now seems to him "as unimportant as it was impractical." Protestantism's very multiplicity he now considers its strength. As Doc Reynolds once told him: "Protestantism ought to remind a man of spring . . . New life beginning to move. New cells splitting up . . . Did you ever think of Protestantism like that? . . . The multiplication of cells...
...Oilman Joe Pew...
...favorite national figures are George Marshall (82.5% like him), Albert Einstein and Harold Stassen, in that order. He least likes Henry Wallace and Republican Oilman Joe Pew...
...pew-book is by no means as rigid or binding as the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer or the Roman Catholic missal; liturgical alternatives are offered for almost every occasion. But even so, the General Council's Seminar on Worship, which spent ten years preparing the new pew-book, "expects" (there is still no way of forcing a Congregationalist congregation to conform) that parsons will put it to good...