Words & Works

P: Speaking to Lenten preachers, priests and seminarians, Pope Pius XII condemned the sexy art work that enlivens Roman walls. "To choose only one recent case," he said, "an important daily newspaper gave a highly colored description of two huge licentious posters . . . Who can tell what ruin in souls, especially those of youngsters, such images may provoke, how many dirty thoughts and feelings they may produce . . . ?" Within a few days a brigade of poster men were out with their buckets and brushes covering the life-large posters of buxom Cinemactress Marisa Allasio.

P: Rabbi Gershon Winer filed a $425,000 suit against the Bowman Biscuit Co. in Denver for getting him fired from his $13,000-a-year post at Denver's BMH Synagogue. The company, said Gershon, had misrepresented its cookies as containing only vegetable shortening and Gershon had endorsed their sale by the synagogue's Women's League. When the cookies turned out to have been made with 20% animal fat, hundreds of Denver Jews found that they had violated the dietary laws of their faith, angrily forced Rabbi Gershon's dismissal.

P: After serving a five-year term for "threatening the security" of Communist China, the Rev. Paul J. Mackensen Jr., last missionary of the United Lutheran Church in America to remain in China, was released from a Shanghai prison. Baltimorean Mackensen said he had decided to stay in Shanghai if he could find a job there. "I learned something of the program for social changes taking place in China," he said. "Now I'd like to study what is going on."

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