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During the Boston incident, a hotel flunky, a priest, various policemen and a pretty girl from the crowd had taken turns in a desperate attempt to dissuade the would-be suicide from jumping. Last week in Louisville, a duplicate cast arrived, as if by magic, to plead with the ledge-walker on the Kentucky Hotel. A hotel clerk named Melvin Tobias leaned out a 19th-floor window, began trying to talk the youth down. A police lieutenant named R. C. Walling quickly arrived on the scene. The clerk and the cop were soon joined by a priest, Father William...
...they cajoled and pleaded, the dark-haired boy on the ledge went on acting just like the youth in Boston. At one point, the priest, who climbed to the roof, got close enough to him to hand him a rosary. But most of the time, the boy warned off his rescuers by crying, "I'll jump!" Staring down at the crowd, he said: "The people down there tell me to jump. The people up here tell me not to. What am I to do?" For two hours and 35 minutes, the nerve-racking struggle went on. But finally, after...
Pious Orgy. At last came a fearful day when a reigning priest-chief died. A frenzy of slaughtering and burying swept over the village. First the villagers laid the dead priest in his ceremonial litter at the end of their wide plaza. Near him they buried four men and two women, sacrifices or suicides, and covered the women's bodies with flat stones. Then, out of the temples and huts came all the appurtenances of their gruesome religion: the strange sacred pots, 75 of them, along with baskets of skulls and bundles of human bones. As they laid down...
Soon he decided that a legal career had its limitations, too. Under the canons of Washington Cathedral, Pike began studying for the ministry. He was ordained a deacon in 1944; two years later he became a priest. For the last two years, he has been Episcopal chaplain at Columbia University. Pike's main job there: building up the almost nonexistent religion department. In two years, he and Religion Professor Ursula (Mrs. Reinhold) Niebuhr of Barnard College have established a joint Columbia-Barnard religion curriculum of 38 courses and 500 students...
Curb Service. In Los Angeles, Al McCarthy, 49, was sentenced to 175 days in county jail for dressing as a priest and accepting free drinks in exchange for hearing barroom confessions...