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Other missionaries got messages too. In a snug hacienda in Caracas, Venezuela, Presbyterian Dorothy Parnell got "from mother and father and Sister Harriet" this message: "Five minutes after you have heard this message read Hebrews 13:20-21. We will read it in unison with you though the seas roll between us." The Parnells read...
...great flakes Moscow's first heavy snow of the season was softly falling. Red Army divisions, snug in their ankle-length winter overcoats and turnip helmets, filled the vast Red Square. All Moscow turned out to see who would bear the ashes of Comrade Katayama to their niche in the Kremlin wall. Millions of eyes fastened on a swart, powerfully built man in a long greatcoat who strode bareheaded through the snowstorm: Chief Pallbearer Josef Stalin...
...externals distinguish a Church of England bishop from a U. S. Episcopal bishop. For outdoor wear the Church of England bishop affects long gaiters of snug black broadcloth. He is ranked a Lord and so addressed by his flock. But these distinctions have lately seemed irksome to Anglican clergymen. During the Oxford Movement centenary (TIME, July 17). the Bishop of Kensington complained of his gaiters, crying that "100 years have failed to provide us a sensible costume." And last week the Bishop of Bristol told his congregation to cease calling him "My Lord." Declared he: "In the old days, when...
...Snug in their beds, guests slept in Brno's Hotel Europe last week, little recking that a clerk named Knop lay awake in a room on the second floor. With him were his mistress, Irma Zwiestlbauer, and a small child. Clerk Knop was determined to die and he did not care in what company. He set off a bomb of ecrasite, an Austrian shell explosive. Besides gratifying Knop's desire it split the hotel from basement to roof, blew out the front of four stories sent 180-ft. streamers of flame into the air, injured 80 and gave...
...Snug in Canterbury, Very Rev. Dean Hewlett Johnson pursues puttering studies in everything from geology to Japan and from hydraulics to Australia. Last fortnight these studious ramblings got him into trouble. He had noticed that about 3,000 Australians inhabit the Commonwealth's Northern Territory which is nearly twice the size of the Empire of Japan. Since 90,000,000 Japanese are well known to be overcrowded in their Empire, it occurred to the Very Reverend Dean that the 3,000 Australians might make room for at least a few Japanese. Speaking diffidently at Guildford, puttering Dean Johnson said...