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By R. M. MacColl

NEW YORK.

TOR months there has

been a growing storm of complaint over the way some sports events are kept from radio and TV broadcasts,

Restrictions on the Turpin- Robinson fight, which could be seen only by paying admission to cinemas in certain towns, particularly angered people.

Suddenly the Government cracks down. Assistant Attorney- General Graham Morison has beg a suit against the Na- sional Football League in an al- important test

case under the anti-monopoly law.

If the Government brings it offit says the N.F.L. ie "an expecially bad offender with the greatest restrictions of any major sports body"-there is no doubt that it will go after the rest.

Leud cheers from the fan in the street.

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IN PLYMOUTH. OHO, they have had to keep their lights on night and day for a fortnight. The whole town is Alled with smoke from an underground fire in what we call peat bogs, and the Americans call "muck- lands." The firemen just cannot And out where the fire is.

Fascinated M.P.s have been hearing an extraordinary story from a genial, loquacious Irish- Finnegan, named James who recently resigned his job as chief of Internal Revenue at St. Louis, Missouri.

man

THAT makes a rich, ng Fordick's "The Meaning of marriage

ONE OF THOSE slightly out- Praye!."

Then I had the idea I might of-this-world Congressional in- successful man, on

be of some use to the Church the edge of achiev- Prayer. That is what im-

full swing and offered my services to thegations le in

This time ing ambitions for which he pressed Colonel Geoffrey Fen-

Bishop of Ely. I was in Cam-down in Washing on. a Japanese bridge

they are busy looking into a then. He agreed and has worked for years, sud- well when he was

prisoner of war on Formosa. "We here I am."

maze of alleged irregularities eschew denly let up,

the

among income tax collectors. than usuai then, prayed harder he has earned, and and we were comforted. When Hen they are, then, all become a 14-a-week curate? everything was against us and all them.

FoAir men, one faith. knew Four men of means and sub- Every day, up and down seemed lost, we somehow

we were not alone. I never for- stance, four men of experience, England, more and more goi this feeling, and when I came

with minds tellywel and men doctors, engineers, home I resolved to become matured by the fullness of their

The civil servants among them parish priest, to try to explain it lives.

Church, naturally encugh, welcomes them, and - are doing just this. The to others."

for that reason. Church welcomes them, for Fennell had a lifetime of prù-

"They their years of experience fessional soldiering behind him,

do not feel insulated of generation

guns and or isolated when they put on of two a make them men

parades and ceremonial. Now, clerical collars," explained of worlds instead of men

instead of Kings Regs and the fellow-parson. Manual of Military Law on his desk

"Cruden's he has

Con- cordance" and "The Parish Priest at Work."

one.

is Sir Reginald Such a man Stuart Champion, who this year resigned from being Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Aden. This greying man of 58 has ex- changed the glory of great occa- sions and all the panoply of state for a small furnished fat opposite Lincoln Theologies) College.

Colonel Fennel is still study- ing to take Holy Orders. Ho hopes to be

Token

Salary

так

Finnegan gaily admitted that he was a couple of years in ar-

own income rears on his Payments

nobody hearing could keep a straight

Finnegan

Practically

at the

face when

said he thinks that between two and four hours constitutes "a really tough working day."

story? In ordained a deacon WITH their pensions or private by Christmas, will join a parish near Margate.

10 go to

HOW'S THIS for a success 1945 a 19-year-old means they are willing

youth married his high school parishes too poor to sweetheart, borrowed 8,500 dol- support a priest who has nors and started to farm 320 "Diffeuitics? Very few," he money of his own. One man em

acres of land in the bleak, He has given up Government says. "I've sean my new vicar accepts only £1 a quarter as largely barren

his of north- west Oklahoma, The land was

House, and a host of liveried ser- and made it clear T' forget I token, salary. vants, to help his wife with ever was a colonel, " housework and spend one week boy again, a new boy.

a term waiting

a table on his

fellow-students and carrying coals

for the college boiler. And he rejoices at the chance and the prospects before him.

The Teacher

be a

ANOTHER man of experienco

as a

There are dozens like those choked with weeds. The barn The farmhouse four: an architect, now a vicar Was derelict.

had been used in Somerset: a doctor, now

a itself parson In Devon; a chartered granary,

Today the undaunted young preaching in the

bride drives the a couple the North; an engineer,

tractor and lorries-have a farm priest in Surrey.

valued at 45,000 dollars includ-

accountant

now

Ιπ Kansas City the

He says "Three years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be going Into the Church, you could have downed me with that proverbial feather. Then the retiring age for Governors was lowered to 55. 1

is vicar of Lady Bay Church, at apathy and cynicism. was faced with farming in the country here, stling

West Bridgeford, Nottingham, on the beards of companies. I want to do either."

in the East is the Rev. They are brave men, mening a new barn and a remodelled Joseph Lee, who was ordained at who have answered the chal-house. the age of 50 after 30 years as lenge of Christianity, men with young man

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the ex-governor, the who spoke for the King, whose parish was 130,000 square miles,

whose ,and

word

was law, becomes this Christmas a curate at All Saints, Maidstone,

Surely this change calls for a good deal of adjustment?

"Far less than I thought," said Sir Reginald. "I am a man of simple tastes, and I'm not old în my dutlook."

(Nor in his health, for a silver cup he won at mixed. tennis doubles with a partner 30 years his junior staris near by.)

has been elected

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Str Reginald speaks for them

TO We talked in his front sliting- ali...

Christian room after he came in from a evangelist is surely the most round of purish visits. He useful and hopeful thing a man gets round his parish can do,” on an old cycle, was stil wear- ing trouser cips.

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Too old? My dear

fellow,

the first lesson you must learni is that no one is ever too old- if his heart is young.

That is also the comment. of Walter E. Rayner, ginger. haired, one-time civil servant,

now a spritely 61, and studying

with the Rev. Dr A. R. Vidler,

canon of Windsor.

"At first it was rather like go bought a small farm in Bed- Shortly after the war Rayner, ing back to school, but everyone was helpful."

fondshire, but had to give it up owing to labour difficulties. Yet his excursion into the country life was not wasted.

The Arclight cams on the silver cigarette box in Arab regiment gave him, on the rich silver scabbards of two Arab "The village vicar fell, and swords that remain from the old I tried to help him out as best greal days, and the governot I could, and eventually did turned clerio goes back to read most things except conduct

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