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...kept them both in the headlines for days (TIME, Feb. 8). Rev. Charles Francis Potter of the First Humanist Society described for gumchewers the last hours of Murderer Francis Crowley (TIME, Feb. 1). But very rarely does publicity attach itself to vigorous, wavy-haired Dr. Robert Norwood of St. Bartholomew's, one of the smartest and richest of U. S. Protestant Episcopal churches.? Dr. Norwood's Sunday sermons draw large and genteel crowds. Weddings in St. Bartholomew's are society page news. Last week St. Bartholomew's made news of a different sort...
Into the sanctuary of St. Bartholomew's, day after day, streamed visitors, mostly female. Many church members knew it already, but the Press discovered for the first time that on the brown-veined marble wall is a realistic figure of Jesus Christ, rising from the dead. Apparently illumined by strong light from above, the figure much resembles the heroic Transfiguration over the high altar. Dr. Norwood says he noticed it some time ago. But that is not all. He has also found a Buddha, another Christ, and a horrid Brute Man with slit-eyes, pointed ears and lightning coursing about...
...dominant theme in my sermons at St. Bartholomew's has been the resurrected Christ. A year ago, during Lent, I delivered a noonday series on 'His Glorious Body' which is now published in book form...
...best music of the future" would be composed by them. They elected him an honorary member of the Association. They listened to the Schola Cantorum sing old motets under Conductor Hugh Ross, made a tour of Manhattan's finest church-organs: at St. Patrick's, St. Bartholomew's, Riverside Church, Temple Emanuel, Trinity Church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Inventor-Pianist Hans Barth played for them on his quarter-tone piano...
...Balbis de Berton de Crillon (1543-1615) French soldier, called by Henry IV "the bravest of the brave." He served under Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX as well as Henrys III and IV. He was not present at and strongly condemned the massacre of the Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's Day (1572), which was instigated by King Charles's mother, Catherine de' Medici. The famed Paris hotel on La Place de la Concorde was named for him. Bertrand Du Guesclin (1320 -1380), constable of France, was the most famed French warrior of his age. He fought...