Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy celebrated the tenth anniversary of Mussolini's March on Rome, Peter Blume was there. Traveling on a Guggenheim Fellowship, he saw among Rome's ruins many things that stayed with him, from a scowling papier mache image of II Duce to a tawdry effigy of Christ adorned with trinkets by Italy's praying poor. Back in the U.S., Blume spent two years pondering what he had seen, the next three years painting the vivid, swarming detail of The Eternal City with its popeyed Mussolini...
...Washington and Lee University President Dr. Francis P. Gaines; Virginia's Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America; onetime NBC President Merlin H. Aylesworth; American Legion Auxiliary national President Ruth H. Mathebat; and Mrs. Du Pont. They gave the companion $1,000 award, for the radio station best serving its community and the nation, to General Electric's short-wave station KGEI of San Francisco...
...Dusen's most ardent pages concern the heroic German Churchmen, Niemöller, Faulhaber and Von Galen, who have defied the Nazis in the name of Christ. Humor has been among their weapons. When Von Galen preached in Münster Cathedral against Nazi doctrines on the family and education, a Brown Shirt cried out that no celibate should talk about such matters. Cried the Bishop to his heckler: "Never will I tolerate any reflection on our beloved Führer...
Suddenly, however, the contribution of the Rev. Mr. Frederic B. Kellogg, who, appropriately for the baptism, is a minister of Christ Church in Cambridge appeared. Looking not for the subtle nor for the "flashy", he had suggested the "HARVARD SERVICE NEWS...
...Reverend Mr. Frederic B. Kellog, rector of Christ Church, will go a war bond. The winning title which will top the new paper beginning with today's issue is HARVARD SERVICE NEWS, characterized, in the author's words, as a name that is "subtle" but not "too flashy...