Word: vicar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anglican Church of St. Aidan's at Leeds, England, the vicar was preaching the evensong sermon. In the choir stalls behind him two dozen choirboys sat still as church mice. The absence of fidgeting and whispering was not just good British behavior: the choristers were absorbed in juvenile thrillers-which the vicar had furnished...
Thirty-six-year-old Vicar Peter Mahew said he would rather see boys reading thrillers than bored by a sermon. His parishioners agreed; they supplied stacks of cowboy stories, Edgar Wallace mysteries, schoolboy magazines...
...BRIAN HESSION, M.A. Vicar of Holy Trinity Aylesbury, England Chairman Bible Films Los Angeles...
...striking new figures in Hollywood last week was a Church of England clergyman. The Rev. Brian Hession, 37, was appearing at the best parties clad in a checked, double-breasted suit topped by a clerical collar. But handsome Brian Hession, vicar of a parish of 12,000 people in Aylesbury, England, was not in Hollywood just...
...British Way. Hession, prewar R.A.F. pilot, got his "blue" in swimming at Cambridge, was the youngest vicar in the Church of England when he assumed his duties in 1936. He has had a hand in many a British religious film, has shown some of them in his church...