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Have your child baptized early, the vicar of St. Saviour's in Walthamstow, England urged his parishioners. The Rev. Cyril W. Nye, 61, was not voicing concern about the little ones tossing in limbo; it was their tossing in his arms that bothered him. Said he: "Please, please try to bring your children along before they are two months old. Babies of six months and over are uncommonly awkward to handle. When the baptismal water is poured over their heads, they react strongly and try to get away . . . That can be quite tricky with a healthy, struggling infant...
...Vicar of Olney, unchallenged arbiter of Olney's annual Shrove Tuesday's Pancake Race, declared Housewife Dix's winning time a "world's record...
Your Feb. 23 issue contains C. E. Allen's letter berating TIME for claiming the highest office in the world for the President of the U.S. He feels that this honor should go to Pope Pius XII as the "Vicar of Christ on earth . . ." No Protestant will admit that the Pope is infallible, or that he is envoy of the Lord on earth. Such assumption is incorrect, because the Pope is a simple, human gentleman of great culture, elected to his office by other mere mortals-many less than it takes to elect a President...
...action brought some Catholic replies: In Dublin and in Rome, church authorities restated the Catholic position that a nuncio does not represent a temporal state, but "the spiritual power of the Pope." Irishmen, both Protestant and Catholic, were irked by the controversy (said a Protestant vicar: "Let these Americans squabble at home"). Some representatives in the Dail, Ireland's parliament, asked the government to take action against Blanshard. But Minister for External Affairs Frank Aiken, a better democrat than they, retorted: "It is not worth noticing...