Word: sects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suite. A year ago in Cannes, Elsa Maxwell introduced Rita Hayworth (ne´e Cansino in New York) to Prince Aly Khan, a demigod to five million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, and heir to one of the biggest fortunes in the world.* Though Rita was still the wife of onetime Wonder Boy Orson Welles, and Aly had not yet severed his marital tie with British-born Joan Yarde-Buller (exwife of Brewing Heir Thomas Loel Guinness), the lovers showed all the symptoms of sophomores in the throes of their first passion...
...even older world, far-off Karachi, members of the Aga Khan's religious sect paraded, singing, through the streets, to honor the wedding. One Ismaili Moslem suggested that Rita take the local name of Rehmat Khanum, which means Lady of Blessings from the Almighty...
First, he joined a newly formed splinter sect, the "Presbyterian Church of America." In less than a year he broke away, to form his own "Bible Presbyterian Church" (present membership about 8,000). In 1941 he founded the American Council of Christian Churches, which now numbers 18 small sects...
...mind spin back to livelier days. He remembered his devilish sister Lucy, who willfully eloped with Puggy Brown, the butcher; Lucy had scrubbed floors, suffered humiliation and yet found happiness in Puggy's gypsy crusade as leader of a revivalist sect. He remembered his own brilliant brother Edward, who rose to power as a Liberal politician and later came to a colorful, if disappointing, end. These people had made mistakes, thought Tom, but they had taken chances. They had been of the real England "whose nature was rather affection than passion; whose gaiety was rather humor than wit; whose...
Bulgaria has only 8,300 Protestants. The predominant sect (84%) is the Moscow-stooge Greek Orthodox Church. Communist Premier Georgi Dimitrov comes from one of the country's few Congregationalist families. Last week, a U.S. Balkan expert noted that Dimitrov's first "revolutionary act" was refusal to go to Sunday school, his most recent was to jail 15 of Bulgaria's leading Protestant churchmen...