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...apartment he conducted Protestant religious services twice a week, and soon had a flock of 500. He started a free Bible school for 70 children, some of whom had been attending the local Roman Catholic parochial school. In heavily Catholic Italy all this was distressing news to the parish priest. Don Pietro Santanto-nio. "Go away, leave Fondi," Don Pietro advised Righetti. "Fondi is no bread for your teeth." But even when some Catholics threw rocks at him, Righetti stayed...
...best-attended movies in Paris last week was Le Désert de Pigalle, a sex-and-sob drama about a priest in plain clothes battling for the soul of a streetwalker. Many a homeward-bound member of the audience, hurrying along Montmartre's notorious Place Pigalle just a block from the theater, passed a pipe-puffing Parisian in a beret chatting with a prostitute without realizing that he was the movie's real-life model...
...kill him. Recalls Père Pigalle with a laugh: "His women disappeared. He got it into his head that it was I who was taking them away. Imagine it-with my bald head and more than 70 years!" On another occasion two would-be assassins rang the priest's doorbell, pistols in hand. "I implored them: 'Not at this hour-you'll wake everybody up. Put your playthings away and come in if you like.' Finally, they each drank a bottle of wine and went to sleep on the table." But it has been...
...Ernest Dichter, high priest of the motivational researchers, argues that convertibles are bought, not because buyers like fresh air and sunshine, but because somehow they regard the convertible as the mistress they dare not have. With equal solemnity, Sociologist David Riesman (in an article co-authored by Auto Expert Eric Larabee) proclaims that "many can safely sample the jet-age aura by having a design 'based' on the Sabre jet-as the 1956 Plymouth. So, too, can the consumer be in tune with the future through his dashboard, which looks like an intergalactic control panel...
Since God has ordained marriage, wrote Martin Luther, it is good for a priest to take a wife. But the founder of Protestantism, who did not marry until he was 41, might be surprised at the latest trend among U.S. Protestant ministers-marriage while still in seminary. Married students in leading seminaries rose from 15% in 1935 to 36% in 1955 to 60% last year...