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With this rabbit punch at his foes, white-goateed Statistician Roger Ward Babson last week rudely suggested that famed Helen Keller be elected to succeed him as moderator of the general council of the Congregational and Christian Churches. Shocked bigwigs of the church council, which was holding its biennial convention in Beloit, Wis., hastily apologized to Miss Keller for "the public use which has been made by Mr. Babson of the name of Miss Helen Keller in a most unkind and undignified manner...
DEDHAM, MASS.--Roger W. Babson, National Moderator of the Congregational Church, in a searing attack on modern religion, tonight branded all denominations, with the exception of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal Churches, as "country clubs." The noted statistician, who earlier in the day had Ied a revolt of several hundred church leaders and ministers from the state convention here, said the "country club" denominations are "slipping badly" and the "time has come for them to return to the old-fashioned principles upon which they were founded...
...them attend church regularly, although 76% are church members. Of Roman Catholic women, 85% are regular churchgoers. Of Protestant women, 54% actually go to church-a percentage which, even allowing for U. S. Protestant men who do not attend church, is somewhat higher than Statistician Roger Ward Babson's estimate of 30% for Protestant attendance (men & women). U. S. female churchgoing, high in the East and South, drops in the Midwest, sinks to 26% on the Pacific Coast. According to the survey, U. S. women believe in God (91%). Though most do not attend church, 75% believe that children...
...Emerson, TIME'S thanks; and thanks to the nine other advertisers (Babson's Statistical Organization; Doubleday, Doran & Co.-then Doubleday, Page; International Mercantile Marine; Western Electric; John Wanamaker; Durham Duplex; Allerton Club Residences; Alexander Hamilton Institute; Charles Scribner's Sons) who joined up the first year and have weathered a decade and a half with TIME...
...last week (see col. 1), his only son, Elaine, was discovered in the student training course in the Aliquippa, Pa. plant of Big Steel's little competitor, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Big, broad-shouldered and 24, Blaine Fairless went to Culver Military Academy, M. I. T. and Babson Institute, from which he graduated last spring. Liked by his fellow workers, he collects phonograph records, moves in a socialite young set. Month ago he and a dozen other gay blades ribbed Pittsburgh debutantes by holding a mock Bachelors' Cotillion at which the girls had to carry bouquets of vegetables...