Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, the Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan, who married Lana Turner and Bob Topping three days after Topping's divorce, was formally reproved by his elders. The rebuke, read aloud to him as he stood with head bowed, accused him of having "brought reproaches upon your Christian profession," and warned him to "be more watchful" in future of "the common evil of the remarriage of divorced persons...
...Rev. Daniel A. Poling, world-famed preacher, resigned last week from Philadelphia's Baptist Temple to assume direction of the Chapel of the Four Chaplains, a memorial to the four Army chaplains-two Protestant, one Catholic, one Jewish-who went down with the torpedoed troopship Dorchester in 1943 after giving their life belts to G.I.s. One of them was Dr. Poling's own son. The inter-faith memorial now being built in Philadelphia will have a Hebrew tabernacle, Catholic altar and Protestant altar on a revolving base...
Example. In Hatfield Peverel, England, the Rev. Brian Mahood judged a women's ankle-beauty contest, then took off his socks and won the prize for the shapeliest male ankles...
This parody of the old tearjerker, Mother Machree, just about expresses one Briton's opinion of socialized medicine. Quoted by the Anglican Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Charles Lester Lunt, it appeared last week in Sarum Messenger, a church publication. With increasing government interest in the individual's health "from sewerage to the new National Health Service," said the bishop, the government has become a sort of "foster mother" for the whole population. Though he likes some things about womb-to-tomb medical care at government expense, he said, it has lessened individual responsibility...
...Cathedra. In Wimbledon, England, the Rev. W. A. Gibson noted that there were fewer buttons in the collection plate than there used to be, but came to a bitter conclusion: it was not morality that had increased, but the price of buttons...