Religion: Archbishop Outpointed

It was as though Elvis Presley at his prime had challenged Cardinal Spellman to a theology debate on NBC. For in England, mop-haired Adam Faith, 21, is the current king of rock, and last week he argued religion for half an hour on BBC-TV with the Most Rev. Frederick Donald Coggan, 52, Anglican Archbishop of York. Faith proved rather more than the archbishop had bargained for.

Born plain Terence Nelham, Singer Faith earns $140,000 a year and gets 300 letters a day from doting clutches of his Faithful—to the great distress of Dr. Coggan....

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