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...TIME, June 16, there appears an article on Professor Richard T. Gore of the College of Wooster. . . . Professor Gore is of the opinion that much of the present-day church music is sacrilegious...
...longtime church organist and head of the conservatory of music at the College of Wooster (Ohio), Professor Gore divides the church music he scorns into two broad classes. One kind is "soft purrs from the organ, a gentle humming from the choir, hymns sung slowly and glueily and ... a maudlin ditty played sotto-voce on out-of-tune chimes," the whole being calculated to "lull the listener into a dream state." The other kind is erotic music calculated to excite the listener into a state of unholiness...
...Trenton, N.J. butcher, 34-year-old Preacher Burger butchered and dishwashed his way through Wooster College, then went to Yale Divinity School. For two years he had a parish at Graniteville, Vt., for four at Haverhill, Mass. But, though he has a wife and three children at South Ryegate, Vt., it will suit him fine if he never has another "civilized" parish. He doesn't particularly relish the black flies, mosquitoes and winter temperatures-but he prefers them to elders, sewing circles and church suppers...
...novel-in which the inimitable Jeeves makes his umpteenth appearance-Pelham Grenville Wodehouse says of Jeeves's cuckoo-pated employer, Berty Wooster: "If there is one quality that distinguishes him, it is his ability to keep the lip stiff and upper and make the best of things. Though crushed to earth, as the expression is, he rises again-not absolutely in midseason form, perhaps, but perkier than you would expect and with an eye alert for silver linings...
Hiram Edwin Wooster...