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After his ordination in 1932 he was assigned to a mission in western Kansas. As an unmarried vicar he was often asked to board paroled reform-school boys. The boys' response to his decent treatment kept Minister Mize pondering the problems of "exceptional children," as he likes to call delinquents. In 1945, when he learned that the vacant Poor People's Home at Ellsworth could be rented cheaply, "Father Bob" seized the opportunity to put some pet theories into practice...
These, who might have come straight from the vicar's garden party or a charity bazaar, wore the rapt expression of idolaters as their hero spoke. Behind them and around them stood the thousands of the crowd-the voting public. They wore the garb and they had the faces of the working class; they came from the motorcar factories of Cowley, near Oxford, from the shops of Banbury, from the farms of Oxfordshire...
...have really absolutely topnotch performances of music and art -so why not approach the people at the very top of the tree? They could only refuse, and that wouldn't hurt me." When his father, Canon Hussey, who had been St. Matthew's first vicar, offered to make a jubilee presentation to the church, Hussey hurried off to see Sculptor Moore, whose smooth, tiny-headed figures are considered by some critics to be tops in modern British art. Moore was dubious about making "the Madonna still look like the Madonna and something done by Henry Moore...
These were not the views of a socialist-baiting Tory. First as vicar of Portsea, then as bishop of South London's slum-ridden Southwark district, Dr. Garbett learned a great deal about what life is like among the poor; as an enthusiastic sponsor of his Church's famed, leftish Malvern program in wartime, he won the hearts of Anglican liberals...
...Protestant readers, to be included in TIME. I read it with some interest. One must admire the Pope's systematic life, if the day described is typical. I was, however, impressed with the man's loneliness. He never eats with anyone. How different from our Lord, whose vicar he claims to be, and of whom we read that He ate even with publicans and sinners! He is not married. How different from the Apostle Peter, whose successor the Pope pretends to be, and who, like other Apostles, had a wife and a mother-in-law, the latter being...