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...Waldron. Around the turn of the century, Waldron Sr. left his home in New Jersey to try his fortunes in the West, tried prospecting in Alaska, drifted back to Seattle and in 1904 married Nora Vieg, daughter of a Minnesota farmer of Norwegian antecedents, at the First Methodist Church. Frankie was born the next year...
...oratory, their duty became plain. He arranged their passports and sent them packing, full of zeal. For Dennis, no chance for conquest was to be neglected. One of his followers, pretty, brown-haired Ann Sabljak of the Young Communist League, wriggled her way into the Methodist Episcopal Church's old Epworth League. One ex-Red remembers a Sunday night when Ann got an Epworth League discussion group around to agreeing that if Christ were alive today he would be a strike leader and a revolutionist...
Bernard Iddings Bell is a personable man, but he has never tried to be a popular man. For 40 years, in books and articles, from pulpit and lecture platform, he has been irritating churchmen, ruffling educators, cracking complacencies and smugness. A canon of the Episcopal Church, and onetime warden of New York's Episcopal St. Stephen's College (now Bard College), he calls himself a radical independent. As such, he has become one of the most caustic critics of the manners & morals of his day. There is scarcely a sector of U.S. civilization for which Bell...
...Boston College High School, they next wrote a letter to the Pope himself. Then the four wrote to the General of the Jesuit order in Rome. Students in Boston College classes, they said, were being taught "implicitly and explicitly" that: 1) salvation can be won outside the Roman Catholic Church; 2) a man can be saved though he does not hold that the Catholic Church is supreme among churches; 3) a man can be saved without submission to the Pope...
...spring he took the baritone part in the performance by the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society of Handel's "L'Allegro and Il Penseroso." He also sang with them in "The Messiah" this fall and with the Polyphonic Choir in Mozart's Mass in C-Minor at Trinity Church. Last month he played the role of Polyphemus in the Lowell House Opera, "Acis and Galatea...