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...Congregational & Christian Church is a three-year-old merger of a stout body which stems from the Pilgrim Fathers of 1620, and a small left-wing Methodist sect formed in 1792. With a million-odd members in 6,000 churches, the C. & C. Church has a moderator but no ponderous machinery to run things from the top. With New England firmness the individual churches do their own thinking and talking. This church last week was the first to come out against the scheme of Chicago's Adolph Oettinger Goodwin to gear piety with business in such a way that...
...Manhattan, J. Robert Stout, 55, president of the International Benjamin Franklin Society, founder of Educational Thrift Service and onetime president of the New York Rotary Club, asked a dozen assorted bankers, psychologists, admen and businessmen to lunch. After lunch, Mr. Stout presented each of his guests with a booklet containing 100 exceedingly personal questions which were designed to foster sharp self-appraisal, shame the questionee to better behavior. Each answer carried with it a grade, and the final total of plus and minus ratings located the individual in society. Some questions...
...average seems to be somewhere around 70," said Questioner Stout. ''I personally must confess that I got a terrible minus score, but since applying myself diligently I have succeeded in showing an improvement of 4.06% over the first time...
...triumphs at last not so much by virtue as endurance. Joyce first conceived the tale of Leopold Bloom as a short story, only to discover too many possibilities in it. In his strolls down the beaches of literature he stumbled on the Odyssey, an archaic old bottle but still stout, decided it was just the thing for his 20th Century wine. Thus. Ulysses became Bloom, the wanderer in search of home, wife and son. Penelope was his wife Molly, Telemachus, Stephen. Other obvious parallels: Hades, the graveyard; the Cave of Aeolus, the newspaper office; the Isle of Circe, the brothel...
...soon forgotten, are her daughter's sore eyes, her husband's occasional moody discontent. Her happiness is shattered when one day her husband disappears, stays away so long that she knows he is gone for good. But she puts a bold face on it, makes up a stout story that drives her to many a deceitful trick. By working even harder she manages to keep the family fed. When her man has been gone too long she lets herself be seduced by the landlord's agent. Then a friend has to help her have an abortion...