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These sentiments did credit to Dr. Frank Buchman, who first interested Mr. Woodring (and many another Washington politico) in moral reformation last spring. But, said Harry Woodring after he had finished his speech: "I'm really not a Buchmanite. I think Moral Rearmament is a great, tremendous influence for good, and it ought to be encouraged. I'm very strong for it. But I'm not a convert." Uplifted by a pile of commendatory messages and cablegrams from as far off as Ireland, Mr. Woodring then went back to his business of rearming the U. S. Army...
...letter to the London Times, Alan Patrick Herbert, M.P., Punch contributor, cracked: "Those who supported and may still support Dr. Frank Buchman will no doubt like to be reminded now of one of the Doctor's most profound and famous sayings: 'Thank God for a man like Adolf Hitler who will stand against the anti-Christ of Communism.' I am, Sir, your obedient servant...
Vigorously pursuing Moral Re-Armament on the West Coast, MRA's Leader Frank Buchman made his most striking conquest to date-the "changing" of curvesome Mae West. Witnesses: Miss...
West's pressagent, a photographer. Posed in her Hollywood apartment, Cinemactress West and Leader Buchman smiled happily, swapped compliments. Beamed Mae, billowy in pink negligee: "It is a wonderful work. ... I owe all my success to the kind of thinking Moral Re-Armament is." Gallantly responded Dr. Buchman: "You are a splendid character, Miss West. You have done wonderful work...
Then Cinemactress West suggested as a likely convert to MRA her coming costar, raffish W. C. Fields. "Give it to him in a bottle and he'll go for it," she told Dr. Buchman, promised, "If you reform Bill I'll let him win me in our next picture." But raucous, red-nosed Bill Fields proved recalcitrant. Said he: "I'll take anything in a bottle. But I don't need re-armament...