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...souls." Bent on seeing to it that the souls of visiting Americans, at least, were not whisked away, Dr. Kirk set out on behalf of the Foreign Christian Union of New York, and with $46,000 raised in the U.S. and France, built a church on the Rue de Berri, off the Champs Elysees. "The services are to be Christian, simply and purely Christian," he wrote at the church's founding. "Except by a violation of compact, the chapel we are erecting can never become exclusively devoted to the forms of any one sect...
...Kirk's church (except, as a rule, Episcopalians, who usually go to one of Paris' Anglican churches or to the Episcopalian American Cathedral), in 1931 Dr. Joseph Cochran. a Presbyterian (now 90 and on hand for last week's celebrations), replaced the Rue de Berri church with a large Gothic church and a five-story community house on the Quai d'Orsay. When Presbyterian Williams took over in 1933, he busied himself learning the rituals of all Protestant sects, performs baptisms in any style except total immersion, calls in a Baptist missionary when this is required...
Whisking and Oiling. Former Paris Managing Editor Eric Hawkins and Correspondent John O'Reilly expected to find a shambles when they reached the New York Herald Tribune's old office at 21 rue de Berri, home of the tourist-loved Paris Herald. Instead they found their bureau's prewar business manager, Renee Brasier, whisking the office into shape and talking plans for future work. Triumphantly she led them to the composing room. "There, cleaning up forms and oiling linotype machines, were mechanical employes of the paper, some of whom had worked for it since...
Lyrics of Love and Nature, by Mary Berri Chapman, Frederick A. Stokes Co., N. Y. and London...