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Steamed Up. The Order of St. Luke was founded in 1947 by Dr. John Gayner Banks of San Diego's St. Luke's Episcopal Church. When Banks died in 1955, his widow took over the editorship of the St. Luke magazine, Sharing, and Price became the order's warden. According to Ethel Banks, the number of U.S. churches offering healing services has grown steadily, from 14 in 1947 to 460 today (about 95% of them Episcopalian). The order now has 4,200 members in 85 countries...
...worship and prayer, for the apprehension of God and the love of him," wrote Manhattan's famed Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick. "Praying is a practice like breathing or eating." From Pentecostal ministers roaring hallelujahs to Greek Orthodox choirs chanting the Divine Liturgy in four-part harmony, from a widow silently mourning her dead husband to a child asking for a wanted toy, the nation last week was praying...
Master Plan. The argument revolves partly around the "finality" of Mahler's last draft. Composer Arnold Schoenberg, who was asked by Mahler's widow to complete the symphony shortly after a facsimile edition of the manuscript was published in 1924, decided not to undertake the job. "What his Tenth was to say," wrote Schoenberg, "we shall never know. It seems that the Ninth is the limit." Bruno Walter and other Mahler experts agreed...
Married. John Alex McCone, 60, director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; and Theiline McGee Pigott, 59, widow of Seattle Industrialist Paul Pigott and a friend of McCone's since college days at the University of California; both for the second time (McCone's wife died last year after 23 years of marriage); in Seattle...
...beyond that, Naked City is not just some fuzz bomb full of nervous motion and synthetic sentiment. It is a remarkably good television show, skillfully written by various hands. Its cool and objective approach derives from Mark Hellinger's 1948 movie. The Naked City (Hellinger's widow has collected more than $80,000 in royalties so far). Whether it is telling the story of a painter who murders his wife or a cop having a nervous breakdown, its scripts are full of insight and nicely caught dialogue. The plots are built, not boiled. And it has won three...