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...Million Members. Much of the hostility was understandable, since the zealous Witnesses quite openly accuse traditional churches of being unBiblical and deride their leaders as servants of Satan. But many Munich residents were appalled by the bitterness of the churches' attack on the Witnesses, and sect workers found no difficulty in finding rooms for assembly visitors. In the end, the convention assembled and housed 110,000 members from all over Northern and Central Europe. Witness President Nathan Knorr announced that the number of Witnesses had in creased 15% in the past year. Witness total worldwide: about...
...Kelso: the $109,750 John B. Campbell Handicap, at Maryland's Bowie Race Course, thus becoming the third-biggest money winner in U.S. racing history (behind Round Table and Nashua). Carrying 131 lbs., Mrs. Richard C. du Font's great gelding rushed from behind to nip Crimson Satan by three-quarters of a length. The victory, Kelso's second in a $100,000-added race within a week, was worth $71,337-pushing his total winnings...
...back is curved as a barrel stave, and his chin kisses his chest. He looks like Satan grown chubby, but his deepest pleasure is the most innocent in Christendom-playing the harpsichord. His sweet music is brilliant and astonishingly rich, but at the end of a concert he can melt with a mundane gesture the mystic spell he has taken an evening to build. "I'm Fernando Valenti," he will say, extending a moist, pudgy hand. "Thank you very much for listening...
Presbyterian Missionary Brown once jovially compared himself to Satan in the Book of Job, who spent considerable time "going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." He was born in Holliston, Mass., and never lost his love for the hard old New England way of life, with its boiled dinners and God-fearing Sundays. He admired the iron and certainty of the traditional Calvinist theology, "stern and rockbound" like the coast of Maine...
Happily, a few islands rise above the morass of tedium. At the close of the Prologue near the beginning, An Actor strikingly initiates the change from major to minor; the orchestra follows. The hamming of Satan, Lucifer, and Astaroth in the Inferno and in Hell provides a pleasant relief, and the Virgin Mary has a delightful lyric song in Bethlehem in Part II ("My God, my sweet King...