Word: vicars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week the publishers of Episcopal Churchnews, a fortnightly for laymen, announced that the five-year-old magazine would cease publication with its Aug. 18 issue. Successor to the venerable weekly Southern Churchman, founded in 1835, Churchnews strove for a snappy, newsy approach ("Old North Church Will Wheeze No More," "Vicar's Worry: They Love 'Lucy' More Than Evensong"). But the magazine never really managed to make church trade news sound lively, and beefing up the contents with big-name articles by Historian Arnold Toynbee, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and Sportscaster Red Barber was not enough. Anonymous backers spent...
Parson Baring-Gould solved his real-life problem by packing Grace Taylor off for two years to live with a vicar's family and learn proper manners. Then he brought her back and married her. They lived happily together for 47 years, and had 15 children-such a family that once at a Christmas party, when he leaned down to ask a moppet, "And whose little girl are you, my dear?" she burst into tears and sobbed, "I'm yours, Daddy...
...mixed reactions create a hysteric scene. But it takes a country vacation with Victoria Blount and her mother to bring into the open an evil that has been only hinted at. John Blaydon, though innocent, becomes notorious in all England. John's parents-his father is a vicar- hope that the scandal will vanish if they ignore it. He is sent to a different school. His name is changed. But to those who know, and those who do not, he is a queer duck. To John himself, life seems as opaque and resistant as if he were living...
...married woman who had been little better than a prostitute since the age of ten. Their first child barely missed being born on a sidewalk, with Father da Ponte probably acting as midwife ("The kind of incident that happens every day," he said). Ignoring a reprimand by the vicar-general, Da Ponte and Angioletta next opened a brothel-Da Ponte, "still in his cassock, played the violin...
...swim-and was never seen again. All that was left of him were his clothes and his footprints on the beach. Eileen Ross went back to Woodford in mourning. The parishioners held a memorial service and raised ?600 to build her a bungalow, and the bishop appointed a temporary vicar for Woodford until Ross's death should be declared official, as in due time...