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Radiomen, who vie viciously with one another to decorate their Christmas programs with boughs of Hollywood, admit that they have all been outvied this season by a boyish Roman Catholic priest. The Rev. Patrick Peyton had under his Christmas tree two of radio's choicest sugarplums: his popular, weekly Family Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., Mutual), with a performance of Anatole France's Our Lady's Juggler, and a special, Peyton-inspired, star-studded dramatization of the Nativity, The Joyful Hour, aired last week...
...Father Peyton attributes his sudden success in radio to a simple faith. Some think his Irish stubbornness helped, too. A big, bulky, bashful man of 38, Father Peyton came to the U.S. 20 years ago from a poverty-ridden County Mayo home, already smitten with "the passion of my life": the power of prayer. "I remember what it did for our Catholic family in Ireland," he recalls, "and how it united the eleven of us completely. I knew it would make happy families the world over...
...four years, in his crusade for family prayer, Father Peyton nagged the networks without letup-and without success. When he suggested reading the rosary coast-to-coast, vice presidents by the score yawned in his face. Last February, Mutual promised to let him do a weekly dramatic show, with nonsectarian opening and closing plugs for prayer. There was one catch: Father Peyton would have to rope in at least one film star a week...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt and Newport neighbors scored a smashing victory over a junkman. For some 30 years he had been heaping his own yard with indelicate odds & ends, and he lived just a tin-can's throw from the very best people. So Mrs. Peyton J. Van Rensselaer got up a petition; Mrs. Vanderbilt and some of the other best people signed it. The junkman's yard was a fire hazard, said they. That did it. The junkman tidied up. Now it was just like the good days of 1929. That was the other time he tidied...
Hamilton H. Peyton...