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...Rugby has shattered another tradition, and last week many an old public-school man wondered whether it was one too many. As its new head master, it had picked a man who had never taught a class or preached a sermon. The new head: London Lawyer Sir Arthur Brownlow fforde, 47, wartime under secretary in two British ministries (Supply, Treasury). Hard-pressed Rugby had frankly picked him because it needed someone who knew how to handle money. All week the London Times's letter columns bristled and huffed. Canon Harry Kenneth Luce, head master of Durham School, posed...
Then Franco's police caught up with him. In prison at Alcalá de Henares, he and the other "politicals" were forced to go to Mass. One Sunday the priest delivered a sermon on the commandment No matarás (Thou shalt not kill). The prisoners murmured and the murmur rose to a roar: "No matarás! No matarás! No matarás!" The jailers decided that Sánchez had started it and gave him four months in solitary...
Bruegel intended his Temptation of Saint Anthony (see cut) as a topical sermon. The rotting fish atop the head in the center of the picture, says Editor Barnouw, represented the Church of Rome, which Bruegel considered viciously corrupt. The half-submerged head itself was the Christian world, its mouth on fire, and in the background floated a menacing turretful of Turks. Hermit Saint Anthony turns his back on the nightmare. Ignoring the crossbowman above him, he takes comfort in the psalm: "In the Lord put I my trust . . . for lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow...
...minute color movie of a church service-with prayers, psalm and a sermon -has just been premiered at Los Angeles' Wilshire Methodist Church. Called The Templed Hills, it is the first of nine scheduled by Youth Films...
...spite of his regard for the Koran he concluded: "To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. . . . Here, I think, is a text for some eloquent sermon on the virtues of Christianity" (both Patton and Halsey were Episcopalians...