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...bounce up belligerently from his desk in the House of Bishops. For six years Bishop Manning has battled unity, recently dealt it a thudding blow in a sermon at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine (TIME, Sept. 20). Instead, Albany's Bishop G. Ashton Oldham rose to stroke the porcupine. Gravely he expressed his conviction that if either report were debated it would result in "an unpleasant and unedifying discussion." He suggested that the Bishops adopt neither report, but authorize the Commission to "continue its negotiations" with the Presbyterians. His resolution also stipulated that nothing...
...George) Ashton Oldham, Episcopal Bishop of Albany, roundly denied the importance of lipstick and nail polish to keep up U.S. morale. "God help this country," cried he in a Lenten sermon, "if we have to depend on those things for morale." Promptly from Hollywood came red-white-&-blue protests: How would the Bishop of Albany like to give up shaving? "I am willing to stop shaving," he countered, "if they are willing to give up cosmetics." That appeared unlikely...
...Perelman like many another fledgling writer headed posthaste for Montparnasse. A redoubtable tosspot and coxcomb, he was celebrated throughout the Quarter for drinking Modigliani under the table; his fondness for this potent Italian apéritif still remains unabated. In 1925, disguised as Ashton-Wolfe of the Sûreté, he took to frequenting the milieu, the sinister district centering about the rue de Lappe. As 'Papa' Thernardier, he organized the gang that stole a towel from the Hotel Claridge and defaced the blotters at the American Express Co. A démarche from the Quai...
John M. Alcorn, head usher, announced last night that the ushers would be Maxwell P. Aley, Thomas J. Ashton, Otto Bremer, James Conway, Jr., Don Crary, David Harrower, Allen M. Johnson, Robert Keahey, Leonard S. E. Langer, Robert S. Landau, David Levin, Ernest L. Levinger, Donor M. Lion, Arthur S. Littell, James E. McNulty, Jr., Arthur B. MeCormick, Jr., Melvin L. Milligan, H, Maurice M. Osborne, Jr., Francis Park man, Jr., Sidney O. Smith, Jr., John R. Thompson, Andrew H. Wright, and Joseph L. Yarlott...
...action, 82% of the people, according to the latest Gallup poll, favor outright imprisonment of guilty "blacketeers." But Britain's eminent Solicitor General Sir William Jowitt, who knows more than anyone about the extent and ramifications of the black market, favored a shorter shrift. In a speech at Ashton-under-Lyne, he declared: "We have played with this thing long enough. ... I, for my part, would like to see war courts set up and people found guilty of the crime ordered to face a firing squad...