In Florida's well-to-do Palm Beach, St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church was badly down at heel. It owed a $47,000 mortgage, had been damaged in last fall's hurricane. In January, Catholic friends of Charles Francis Coe, longtime Satevepost fictioneer and editor of the Palm Beach Post-Times, asked for his help.
Said "Socker" Coe: "I don't belong to any church [but] it seems to me the time has come when we ought to get together and do something. I got the idea for an interfaith committee out of my head. I got on the telephone, and in about five minutes each with the three...
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