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Middlesex-born Vicar Strong first took up his double life during World War II, when he served a village near Dover as vicar and simultaneously worked as a coalfield pitman. Hampered by unenthusiastic superiors and sheer exhaustion. Strong had to quit for a while, but in 1955 he took a job as an oil-meter checker in a factory, was appointed curate in Harlington, and won the backing of his bishop...
...their Irish editions, English editors usually kill the sex-and-scandal stories they so favor at home. The Empire News recently killed a series headed YES, VICAR . . . I'M HAVING A BABY, substituted SAVED DE VALERA FROM THE FIRING SQUAD. London's lip-smacking The People last week shelved a picture of Marilyn Monroe in a two-piece bathing suit, substituted one of the triple wedding of some County Mayo girls. Says a Dublin newsman: "When you see an English paper writing about Lourdes or the Irish saints, you can bet that the space in home editions...
...pilot banked his plane, swooped down toward a clearing and made a smooth touchdown on another makeshift airfield. There to greet him were the local priest, a handful of native sisters, and hordes of near-naked natives. The pilot: lean, sandy-haired Bishop Leo Arkfeld, 47, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of the Wewak Vicariate, a 20,100-sq.-mi. area (more than twice the size of New Jersey) in Australia's hot, humid New Guinea territory...
...Britain, where more than 6,000 were killed, 300,000 injured in traffic accidents last year, a Church of England clergyman had a similar message for motorists. Vicar Vyvyan Watts-Jones of Darlaston's All Saints Church suggested a ten-second prayer to be pasted on dashboards and to be read before each trip: "Help me, O God, as I drive, to love my neighbor as myself, that I may do nothing to hurt or endanger any of your children. Give my eyes clear vision and skill to my hands and feet. Make me tranquil in mind and relaxed...
...home for tough stands on Catholic issues (e.g., his hassle with Eleanor Roosevelt over publicly paid transportation for parochial schools, his frequent criticism of movies he considered indecent), he traveled tirelessly, has spent many Christmases with U.S. troops in Japan, Korea and Europe in his capacity as military vicar to the armed forces...