Word: 53rd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live in!" From that same house last week Grover Hall was taken, stricken with a hemorrhage from stomach ulcers. When transfusions were needed, Alabama's Governor Frank Dixon, Advertiser employes, hundreds of Editor Hall's friends offered blood. They were too late. Two days before his 53rd birthday Grover Hall died...
Last week the Episcopalians' 53rd triennial General Convention, at Kansas City, did not quite get around to creating an archbishopric but it voted to make the National Cathedral at Washington the official seat of the Presiding Bishop, thus giving him a national pulpit for his pronouncements. Eventually the change may mean that the diocese of Washington will become a primatial see for the U. S. such as Canterbury is for England...
Strangely similar to the problems of the U. S. itself were those which confronted the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U. S. when its bishops, clergy and laity met last week for its 53rd triennial General Convention in Kansas City. Like the U. S., Episcopalians have problems of foreign policy: how to cope with the Japanese, what to do about aid to Britain, how to protect their investments (missionary enterprise) abroad, how to cooperate with other churches. Like the U. S., they also have domestic problems: the financing of a crisis-upped budget, family relationships, youth problems, how to safeguard...
...biggest Latin-American show, at the San Francisco World's Fair, has failed to draw. Even a bang-up Mexican show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, May 27) has attracted the lowest attendance recorded so far in the Museum's swanky, streamlined 53rd Street building. Main reason for gallerygoers' apathy: most of the contemporary Latin-American art shown has looked like the post cards tourists send home...
...executives write advertising copy, writes all of the institutional copy himself. Sample: the current Heinz campaign, which is based on Maxon's boyhood reminiscences. Last year Adman Maxon drew $98,000 salary. In the personal income-tax figures for the whole U. S., he was 53rd on the list...