Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tibetans and Mongolians, had quite a time at his enthronement. Because the affair took place at Kum Bum Lamasery in remote Hwangyuan, China-which is practically out of this world-it took nearly three months for the full story to reach the U.S. Present at the enthronement was the Rev. Victor Guy Plymire, a longtime American missionary. After patiently waiting through eight hours of ceremony and gift-giving (the presents ranged from precious silver ornaments to a sheep stomach filled with butter), Missionary Plymire was finally permitted to take a picture (see cut) of the new Lama, six-year...
...Assist in the laying on of hands when Boston's Very Rev. Angus Dun is consecrated Bishop of Washington at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul (April...
...Visit the Most Rev. Derwyn T. Owen, Primate of the Church of England in Canada, at Toronto, where the Archbishop will discuss with Canadian church leaders postwar missionary and rehabilitation problems...
...Baker Street to a bee farm in Sussex. At last week's dinner no whiff of Holmesian ritual was omitted. Holmesian pundits floored one another with complicated I.Q. tests based on the Master's "Sacred Writings," filled the air with erudite Sherlockeries. From a dais, the Rev. Leslie Marshall of Paterson, NJ. intoned a "prayer," especially composed for the occasion: "Grant me, O spirit of Reason . . . plenty of three-pipe problems, that I may avoid the cowardice of 7% cocaine*. . . . Grant me ... the meditative breakfast at morning; the unexpected client in the nighttime. . . . Strengthen me not to astonish...
...shocked. "The boldest indecent passages I have ever seen," said Boston's Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan. The disturbing passages, he explained, were shown him by a father who had bought Strange Fruit as a present for his daughter in the WAVES. Said the Rev. Donald Lothrop, a member of the advisory committee of the Civil Liberties Union, after being shown a disturbing passage: "That stinks." Nevertheless, the Civil Liberties Union opposes the ban. Said Harvard Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen (American Renaissance): "It should be required reading in every deanery, every parsonage, and every Legislature, on both sides...