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Sticking close to the Best People, Cosmo Lang became Dean of Divinity at Magdalen, Oxford, and four years later, on the recommendation of Arthur Balfour, vicar of the largest parish in England, St. Mary's, Portsea. This parish had a vast industrial population and employed 15 curates, but right across Spithead (scene of this week's Coronation Naval Review), was the Isle of Wight, and on the Isle of Wight sat aging Queen Victoria. Cosmo Lang was soon Queen Victoria's favorite preacher at Osborne, and his career was assured...
...strapping, twinkling-eyed onetime boilermaker who, it is said, still holds a union card, Bishop Duffy taught at Seton Hall College in South Orange, N. J., whence he used to tramp twelve miles weekly to visit his mother in his native Jersey City. He rose to be chancellor, then vicar general of the diocese of Newark, was made Bishop of Syracuse in 1933, transferred to the larger see of Buffalo last January...
Alice Plimpton will play the feminine lead, as Iris Crew, the heroine, while L. J. Profit, veteran of dramatic productions on stages from Australia to Bermuda, will be the Vicar, the principal masculine role. Oliver T. Simpkins '40, and Peggy Eastell are the King and Queen, and Robert Solo '39 will play the General. Alfonse Ossorio '38, designer of the Hasty Pudding Show, John Barnard '39, Richard H. Seymer '39 as "The Dog", Stephen Greene '37, last president of the Club, David F. Parry '38, and J. David Lightbody '40, president of the Freshman Class, are other outstanding members...
...afraid: no one would go out after dark, everyone distrusted and feared his neighbor, took drugs on the sly to keep going. Soon Finchatton began to lose his nerve. When he found a dog beaten to death by the side of the road, when his friend the vicar made a murderous attack on his own wife because he thought she was trying to poison him, Finchatton made up his mind to go away before his sanity cracked...
...virtues of modesty and purity," a League of Modesty was founded two years ago by Roman Catholics in Chicago. Last week this League, headed by a Franciscan named Rev. Celestine Strub, presented a Modest Woman's Creed based upon the preachings of Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani, Vicar General of Pope Pius XI. Recommended to all good Catholic women, it urges...