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This small fugitive is one of a multitude of moppets whose searching, touching, and often embarrassing queries fill the pages of The Questioning Child and Religion (Beacon Press; $3), by Edith F. Hunter. Author Hunter, who has three questioning children of her own, is a graduate of Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary. Currently, she is a curriculum editor for the educational division of the Council of Liberal Churches-the council that governs the two-year-old federation of the Unitarians and Universalists. Author Hunter thus speaks especially to religious "liberals" who are inclined to regard Jesus as great rather...
Never underestimate the power of bird lovers. Last week the management of Manhattan's 1,472-ft. Empire State Building announced that out of respect for migrating birds and the National Audubon Society, it has doused the building's stationary beacon, and will keep it doused until Nov. 1, when most of the feathered friends are safe in their winter resorts...
Since the beacon on the Empire State was extinguished, says the Audubon Society, no birds have crashed. The revolving lights that march around the building's top seem to be no menace to the birds. The light does not touch them long enough to lead them astray...
...loving Maggie Fraser comes from the socially acceptable environs of Beacon Hill, with Faneuil blue blood on her mother's side. Maggie herself is bouncy and bossy enough to have been a queen bee at Vassar ('22). She is no beauty, but to some masculine eyes she flashes with the radiance of a "Fourth-of-July sparkler." From Vassar. Maggie marches forth to conquer Broadway, and is so chagrined by her failure that she quickly settles for marriage to Dexter Bradfield, 6 ft. 2 of Harvard muscle and inarticulateness...
Before he reached 35, Copley was a rich man, with three houses and 20 acres of land on Beacon Hill, and a Tory heiress wife. His humble beginnings and high achievements gave him friends on both sides of the political fence...