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Her work as a parson’s wife opposite Maurice Evans in a well-received 1950 Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw’s “The Devil’s Disciple” landed her on the cover of Life magazine — a major publicity coup.

He spoke with the easy grace of a country parson, but no fire and brimstone emanated from his pulpit as he calmly but bracingly recounted what he said was his mother’s family history.

A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.

I looked at his back, prim as a parson’s, tried to imagine the two of them together.

A career in science had usurped his plan to work as a country parson who dabbled in natural history.