Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's William Temple, who made his pilgrimage to Canterbury in 1942 and became the new Archbishop, was one of them. His church-approved program of reforms brought religion closer to the center of British national life than at any time since Cromwell's Roundheads. Temple challenged all Britain's well-established institutions of economic privilege, espoused the cause of mankind's economic freedom (which Britain loosely calls socialism), probably to leave a lasting mark on British history...
Last week plump, 52-year-old Franz Werfel, now living in California, did much to satisfy the curiosity of his Catholic admirers. In a letter to Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Orleans, he wrote: "I am ... a Jew by origin and have never been baptized. On the other hand, I wish to profess here before you and the world that ... I have been decisively influenced and molded by the spiritual forces of Christianity and the Catholic Church. I see 'in the holy Catholic Church the purest power and emanation sent by God to this earth to fight...
...William, 63, punch-pleased with the way things were going, broke off his lectures explaining the plan long enough to marry his former secretary, Mrs. Jessy ("Janet") Philip Mair, grandmother and economist in her own right. The marriage, performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Caxton Hall, was Sir William's first. Chirped he: "Though I have known the lady . . . for many years, yet marriage must always be an adventure. Yet my critics say that social security kills that spirit...
Winner of a scrap-collecting contest for New Mexico schoolchildren was Connie Davis, 13, of Carlsbad. California Shipbuilding Corp. readied the prize: a girl's wrist watch, a chance to christen the Liberty ship Archbishop Lamy. Then someone discovered Connie...
Last week Connie, stopped by seafarers' traditions against male ship sponsors, looked on while his runner-up smashed a champagne bottle across the Archbishop Lamy's bow. Said he: "Well, I'd have collected the scrap anyhow. I had two brothers captured on Bataan...