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Columnist SIMEON STYLITES (Halford E. Luccock), in the Protestant weekly CHRISTIAN CENTURY...
California's state legislature voted to accept from the estate of the late William Randolph Hearst his $25 million castle, whose ramparts overlook the Pacific at San Simeon, and make it a historical monument, its 3O3-acre grounds a public park...
...pieces weighing 2,500 tons) to the U.S. It cost Hearst more than half a million dollars and ten years of effort to get his treasure home. By that time, even Hearst was reluctant to spend the additional sum it would cost to rebuild the monastery on his San Simeon estate. Instead, he stored it in a warehouse in The Bronx, and there Sacramenia's monastery languished, one of the most monumental white elephants in art history...
...Professor of Homiletics at Yale's Divinity School, the Rev. Halford E. Luccock, 68, has spent the last 25 years teaching his theological students how to preach with wisdom and, if possible, with wit. Since 1948, writing under the name of Simeon Stylites in the Christian Century, he has given his readers a weekly column of pungently good-humored religious and moral criticism. His slogan: "I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable...
...traveling gang of his fellows, moved about the country begging and stealing. After the first shock wore off, he began to like the life. At times his band all but starved, but there were other times when the begging was good and the lepers had tremendous feasts. Author Simeon is at his best describing this weird life in which sudden death, plague and all sorts of violence are regarded as quite normal. He knows his leprosariums, too, and can make it clear why even intelligent lepers often prefer beggars' freedom to the routine of hospitals. Govind finally reaches...