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...richest Episcopal parish in the U.S. belongs to Manhattan's Trinity Church. This onetime landmark on the New York skyline, which now nestles prim and diminutive between office buildings at the head of Wall Street, owns five chapels and an estimated $35 million worth of city real estate. This week Trinity inducted its 13th rector-redheaded Dr. John Heuss Jr., 43, present director of the Episcopal Church's national department of Christian education...
...Lavender Hill Mob (Rank; Universal-International), a superior British-made thriller, is divided into almost equal parts of high comedy and farce. The first and best half of the film shows in loving detail how prim Alec Guinness, for 20 years a trusted employee of the Bank of England, steals $1,000,000 in gold bars and smuggles them to the Continent...
...little girl took a step forward, caught her frock in both hands as if about to make a curtsy, rose upon her toes, and said in a prim voice, "I beg your pardon...
Over the years Stoughton housed such famous and dignified men as Edward Everett 1811, and Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829, but one night in December, 1870, its prim, Puritan Peace was shattered, when a bomb exploded under Room 17, damaging the entire north wing. The culprit was never caught...
...shore, the young tar had a rather quieter time. He once went hard-alee for a pretty little Portuguese, and had to do some tricky navigation to get out of port; but in general, says the prim old sea dog, "I always kept a straight course and gave them a wide berth, as I had no use for painted-faced daisies...