Religion: Noah’s Ark

^ In Meridian, Miss., Mayor Clint Vinson called on his fellow townsmen to pray for world peace every day at noon, ordered the city waterworks’ whistle blown to remind them.

^ Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, noted Roman Catholic radio preacher, took to bed for a “checkup and rest.” The place: Boston’s New England Baptist Hospital.

^ In a leading editorial the September Ladies’ Home Journal urged all American families to revive the custom of saying grace before meals.

^ The Bible was published in twelve new languages during 1940, bringing to 1,051 the number of tongues in which some part of it has been printed.

^ To give future parsons firsthand experience with social problems the New York Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society chose six young seminarians for a three-month course of psychological sprouts at Bellevue Hospital.

^ Charles Laughton will play Job, boils and all, to a score by Deems Taylor, on a CBS broadcast Aug. 24. Other Old Testament dramas to be aired in the same series: Samson, Aug. 10; Esther, Aug. 17.

^ London’s first mosque, planned as a place of worship for the Moslem soldiers & sailors in England and as the “nucleus of a great mosque and Islamic cultural center to be built after the war,” was opened by Hassan Nachat Pacha, Egyptian Ambassador to Britain.