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...with that prayer ringing in his ears at Washington's St. John's Episcopal Church, across Lafayette Park from the White House. For the 20-minute service in the plain white chapel he had gathered about him his family, his Cabinet, a few close friends. At the altar in cassock & surplice stood his old schoolmaster, Groton's Dr. Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody who had married him to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. From his heart, from the hearts of his little band of worshippers, from the heart of a stricken nation rose a wordless appeal for divine strength to right...
...professor of Modern Theology, Church History and Sociology at the Grand Seminary. He is in the U. S. to preach in Polish at Polish churches in the East. When he arrived, tall Father Skalski was photographed with average-sized Owen Murphy, a deck steward who was his altar-boy for masses on board 5. 5. Berengaria. Father Skalski speaks English with a booming voice, a French accent and many an interjected "Pardon?" When newshawks told him he must surely be the tallest priest in the world, he laughed thunderously, said he did not know...
...affable and talkative, gave his name as Reynolds Rogers. He bought a pair of blue overalls, put on an old sweater and cap, cut himself a tall staff and began taking walks in the hills. He built a lookout in a tree on a knoll, a rude altar on another hillside. People living in the same boarding house with him understood he was prospecting for gold, came from "up Kentucky way." Reynolds Rogers attended the County Republican convention, made speeches in which he said he was an intimate of Presidents Roosevelt and Hoover. He campaigned on behalf of the Republican...
Kneeling by the altar rail was a woman, her head bowed. A middle-aged man was approaching...
...shook hands hesitantly, then suddenly embraced and knelt together by the altar...