Brown Study

At the annual meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society in London, Dr. Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York, deplored Christian reading habits: "While at one time the Bible was the book certain to be found in every house, today there are many homes without a Bible, and in some of those where it is found, it is not used except when it is opened for some help in a crossword puzzle."

In Manhattan, Critic George Jean Nathan, 70, an amateur baseball fan, told the New York Times that there were some things still beneath his notice: "I take no interest in politics . . . It is the diversion of trivial men, and when they succeed at it, they become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

India's Prime Minister Nehru convinced the people in remote Gangtok, capital of the northern province of Sikkim, that he really wanted to see them. He arrived for a visit grim and weary after a 27-mile pony ride, which included crossing a 15,000-foot Himalayan pass on the old trade route to Tibet.

On a visit to Victoria, British Columbia, Lady Baden-Powell, world leader of the Girl Scouts and Girl Guides, firmly refused to plant a memorial tree at one of the community ceremonies. Said she: "I haven't got the figure for planting trees, and there is always a photographer there to take my picture bending over."

Just after his appearance before the Senate appropriations subcommittee to restate the urgent case for air power, 53-year-old Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt Vandenberg was rushed to Doctors Hospital for an emergency "serious abdominal operation." At week's end his condition was reported "satisfactory." Acting Chief of Staff during his convalescence: General Nathan F. Twining.

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