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Morte d'Urban, by J. F. Powers. A burlesque with love, on the foibles and faith of a modern priest consigned by his order to today's money-raising lunch-and-lecture circuit...
...Donald, an executive at the local plant of the Celanese Corp.. read the newspaper account of the accident and at once knew what to do. His wife quickly agreed. "There is room for them here-in our home and in our hearts." the Meyers told their local priest, and asked him to negotiate with Catholic Charities to see if the Meyers could adopt all nine of the children...
...Chew More Gum Association opened offices this month in Tokyo. The opening, attended by politicians, baseball stars and showfolk, went as smoothly as a cathedral service-which, in a way, it was. Highlight of the première was a special prayer intoned by a Shinto priest standing before a kind of altar to gamu. Excerpts...
...country's Law of Return, which declares: "Every Jew shall be entitled to come to Israel as an immigrant." Speaking for the court, Judge Moshe Silberg expressed deep sympathy for Father Daniel's desire to "identify himself with the people he loves," and suggested that the priest might still be considered a Jew as the term is understood in rabbinical courts. But the Law of Return, he added, is secular legislation, and must be interpreted according to secular principles: "The question is what is the ordinary Jewish meaning of the term Jew, and does it include an apostate...
...perfume, and gets all her clothes, apparently, at an upholstery shop on Third Avenue. What to give her for Christmas? Black despair, then inspiration: she likes to read, and her taste would be exactly suited by Morte d'Urban, J. F. Powers' witty novel of a worldly priest. The gift giver visits a bookstore and returns well satisfied...