Year ago in Memphis, Tenn., a haggard, burning-eyed, 100-lb. clergyman, Dean Israel Harding Noe (pronounced No-ee) of St. Mary's Cathedral (Episcopal), fasted himself into the news (TIME, Jan. 31, 1938). Attempting to prove that "the spirit can sustain the body, unaided by food or drink," Dean Noe kept it up for 22 days, was then deposed by his bishop for his "vagary" and taken, gravely ill, to a hospital.
Last fortnight, looking far from haggard, 180-lb. Churchman Noe once more mounted a Memphis pulpit. More than 100 Memphis citizens, some of them non-Episcopalians, had petitioned the Tennessee Diocesan Convention for permission to...
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