Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victorious Allied troops and seamen. He did a thorough, workmanlike, pleasant job. He reviewed British troops, troops of the U.S. Fifth Army. He ate lunch with U.S. officers, joked, laughed, praised the food. He visited battlefields, British and American cemeteries, hospitals, warships, airfields. He attended church at a naval chapel, talked with sailors, admirals, merchant mariners, nurses, wounded veterans, privates and generals. Everyone seemed pleased with him. He seemed pleased with everyone...
Near dusty Teheran, where cargo from the U.S. and Britain is taken over by the Russians, the plane slid down. Briefly the public eye caught the Archbishop in a characteristic pose. In an open-air chapel, once the Shah's garden, he celebrated field mass. A portable organ played; a U.S. servicemen's choir sang. The hands of the Archbishop held aloft in benison were speckled red with the bites of Iran's hungry sandflies...
Five years later, he went to take over run-down midtown Madison Avenue Church. The rich came to the church, the poor East Siders went to the chapel which the church supported. Coffin abolished the chapel, brought the two congregations together. He abolished pew rents (a daring innovation in those days), got new parishioners by following moving vans in the neighborhood, ringing the bell before the family got settled. He regularly took his folding reed organ to tenement houses at 2 in the morning to hold a service for neighborhood street railway workers arriving home from the night shift...
FREEDOM FORGOTTEN AND REMEMBERED-Helmut Kuhn-Chapel Hill ($2.50) A German officer in World War I, later lecturer on philosophy at the University of Berlin, Author Kuhn is now a member of the philosophy department at the University of North Carolina. His book is a weighty, nonpopular examination of the numerous currents of thought that prepared 1) Germany for totalitarism, 2) the democrats for forgetfulness of the true nature of freedom and the need for faith in Christian virtues. No respecter of economic, political and psychological theories which scorn "the individual conscience" Author Kuhn wants a united front of religious...
Under a program worked out by Reginald Fitz '06, University Marshal, the graduation ceremonies for the service men will follow the regular University Commencement. The quadrangle between Widener Library and the Chapel, which has been chosen for the graduation site this year, instead of the traditional Sever quadrangle, will hold an expected gathering of about 7000 people...