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...spring of 1940, when chic society disintegrated at the approaching threat of German boots, Trinity's Dean Frederick W. Beekman fled to the U.S. Organist Whipp, left in charge, moved into the deanery to run the church. He held services for the few remaining parishioners (he could not perform Holy Communion), baptized six children, buried 40 Americans, visited and comforted the sick...
...Army approached Paris, Organist Whipp returned to his church, got busy repairing broken windows and furniture, organizing and conducting services. In November he wrote to Dean Beekman: "I am old, thin and tired. . . . Come as soon as you can." When the Dean arrived just before Christmas, Whipp greeted him jovially: "Take back your damned baby...
...late Professor Nicholas John Spyk man (rhymes with Beekman) bequeathed a nightmare to U.S. readers. The nightmare was that, seen globally, North America is an island encircled by the stronger Eurasian land mass. The purpose of this little book, which is really a 61-page footnote to Professor Spykman's America's Strategy in World Politics (TIME, April 20, 1942), is to wake Americans to the realization that Spykman's geopolitical nightmare is no dream...
...angel as busy as Cullman has to get up in the morning. Besides being vice president of Cullman Brothers Inc. which owns Benson & Hedges (Parliament, Virginia Rounds), he is vice chairman of the Port of New York Authority, president of Beekman Hospital, chairman of the Program Committee of the New York City Center. He writes hundreds of letters, makes hundreds of phone calls a day, never slowing up for a second. "He wants everything done yesterday," a Port Authority associate once said...
...four, Roismann and Kroyt, are married; three have homes in Washington. The fourth, Alexander Schneider, keeps a bachelor apartment on Manhattan's swank Beekman Place. He cooks, makes pottery and prefers blondes...