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...their ability to play the sport." One would-be football diarist from the Pittsburgh Steelers who wrote to ask for the Kramer treatment was rejected out of hand because he misspelled Pittsburgh. Diaries of Hockey Player Derek Sanderson, Basketballer Dave DeBusschere, Concert Violinist Erick Friedman, a Long Island rabbi, a Marine captain in Viet Nam, an airline pilot and a single career girl are coming along nicely...
...Tokyo, one poetaster objected: "Now that the poesy of it is all gone, what can one do -commit hara-kiri?" In Vietnamese legend, the moon is represented by Hang-Nga, a beautiful maiden; "Now she is no longer a virgin," a Saigon intellectual lamented. Tel Aviv's Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren offered a 20th century amendment to a 12th century Hebrew prayer on the eve of the new moon. For 800 years, it has read: "As I dance in front of you and yet cannot touch you, so all my enemies should be unable to harm me." The rabbi...
...have religious observances in the White House. Evangelist Graham conducted a service for Lyndon Johnson and 75 guests last summer. But Nixon is the first to hold services regularly. Among the White House preachers since Graham have been the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, Terence Cardinal Cooke, Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of New York's Jewish Theological Seminary, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church, and Dr. R. H. Edwin Espy, general secretary of the National Council of Churches...
...Christian flavor of the services was maintained even during the visit two Sundays ago of Rabbi Finkelstein and a number of Jewish guests. Though Finkelstein intoned a Jewish hymn, Adon Olam, at the end of the service, the Lutheran guest choir sang a traditional doxology, Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow-a hymn that specifically glorifies the Trinity. Although some eyebrows were raised, Nixon aides explained that this particular hymn was always part of the services, and Rabbi Finkelstein confirmed that he had been informed of it in advance. Finkelstein acknowledged that he "did not exactly jump...
...your book which I am sure will make a real contribution to our present day thinking."--Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman, Temple Israel, Boston...