Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a white cross on it. What else? Nothing. . . . It is estimated that 45% of the Army are without church affiliation or religious convictions. When the Army endorses religion as we expect it will by building chapels, it is going to mean more to men than the weekly midweek prayer meeting meant...
...hear after the corny Will Bradley novelties (COLUMBIA) . . . Speaking of boogie-woogie, COLUMBIA has just released an album of reissues. Offerings include the Harry James Trio (Albert Ammons, Harry James, Johnny Williams, Eddie Dougherty); Pete Johnson and Joe Turner on Roll 'Em Pete; and the two-sided Boogie-Woogie Prayer, featuring Johnson, Ammons, and Meade Lux Lewis. These records are vastly superior to the ones put out in the older Decca Album . . . Cootie Williams plays trumpet and sings on Benny Goodman's COLUMBIA recording of Let the Door Knob Hitoha. Cootie's vocal is fine, but just try and figure...
...Canada Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec, led 4,700,000 Catholics (42% of Canada's population) in a day of prayer for "victory"-in definite contrast to earlier prayers which were merely for "peace." The action offered even more concrete encouragement to the British, for Cardinal Villeneuve, probably the most influential French Canadian, by himself celebrating a votive High Mass for victory in Montreal's famed old Notre Dame Church and afterwards reviewing a parade of French-Canadian troops, gave the Church's full blessing to Britain's and Canada's war. Other Canadians...
Some take to liquor, some turn to prayer...
...Troop is ready for immediate combat service." To an Army badly in need of officers to train its rookies, such a unit is the answer to prayer...