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...suffragan bishop of the nation's most blueblooded Episcopal diocese is the son of a dining-car waiter on the Pere Marquette Railroad. Upon his consecration two weeks ago as one of the two auxiliaries to Boston Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., the Rt. Rev John Melville Burgess became the first Negro† ever to serve the Protestant Episcopal Church as spiritual leader in a predominantly white diocese...
Square and scholarly-looking. Bishop Burgess, 53. was elected on solid qualifications. He did advanced study in sociology at the University of Michigan be fore graduating from the Episcopal Theo logical School at Cambridge, Mass., in 1934. After his ordination, he served a clerical apprenticeship at churches in Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. In 1946 he was called to the chaplaincy of Washing ton's Howard University, and five years later became a canon of Washington Cathedral. Until his consecration, Burgess was Archdeacon of Boston and supervisor of the Episcopal City Mission. Burgess was chosen for the suffragan bishopric over...
Since a homosexual Admiralty clerk named John Vassall was sentenced to 18 years in prison last month for selling secrets to the Russians, the House of Commons has buzzed with rumors that the case might involve the government in the biggest scandal since Burgess and MacLean eloped to Russia in 1951. Last week the most sensational version of the Vassall saga to date was unfolded in the House of Commons by the very man whom the Opposition had accused of trying to whitewash the whole affair: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...
Borgian Penumbra. Brilliant, left-wing Laborite Richard Grossman retorted caustically that McCarthyism "arises in countries when people outside suspect that the security arrangements required of the small fry are not maintained so severely at the very top." Citing the Burgess-MacLean case, Grossman charged that the government had shied away from a thorough investigation in order to "cover up" higher officials who, "if the truth had come out, would have had to go." Said he: "Now exactly the same thing seems to be happening in the Admiralty...
...machines that machinery last year accounted for roughly a quarter of the nation's $19 billion in exports. Some experts predict that if the Common Market nations dropped their tariffs on U.S. machines, machinery sales to the Six would increase by at least $1 billion. Says Carter L. Burgess, chairman of American Machine & Foundry Co., which exports everything from golf clubs to nuclear reactors: "If we take proper advantage of it, the new trade act can only strengthen U.S. leadership in international business...