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P: Packed so tightly that they were unable to kneel, an estimated 150,000 worshipers jammed Chicago's Soldier Field for a Marian Year Mass celebrated by Samuel Cardinal Stritch. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago. Another 100,000, unable to find even standing room, gathered outside to hear the service through loudspeakers. On the stubs of the tickets were spaces for Roman Catholics to note Marian devotions they attended or performed. The archdiocese will collect the stubs, make a summary of the devotions, and send it to Pope Pius XII as a Marian Year "spiritual bouquet."

P: In response to "the resurgence of religious feeling and practice in America today,", the Ideal Toy Co. is putting on sale a kneejointed doll that can be made to "kneel in a praying position." <| Religious and economic booms in the postwar U.S. have brought no material gain to clergymen, the National Council of the Churches of Christ reports. Congregational ministers now average $3,313 a year (up from $1,769 in 1939) and United Presbyterian ministers $3,709 (up from $1,979). Allowing for inflation, says the council, the raises leave the ministers a few dollars a month behind where they were in 1939.

P: Philippine Protestants from 27 churches assembled in Manila's Luneta Park to join in a prayer for world peace and for the success of the eight-nation conference on Southeast Asian defense (see FOREIGN NEWS). Right after the Protestants marched out of the park, some 10,000 Roman Catholics marched in to pray for the very same things.

P: Harvard University will have a new chief preacher when the fall term begins: British-born Dr. George Arthur Buttrick, 62, ex-president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ and pastor since 1927 of Manhattan's 3,000-member Madison

Avenue Presbyterian Church. As chairman of the Board of Preachers. Buttrick will conduct services in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard; as Plummer professor of Christian morals, he will teach the New Testament to undergraduates, will also teach in Harvard Divinity School.

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