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Pillar & Post. Trade's grandsons, President William and Vice President Robert, are a modem counterpart of the original brothers. Hard-working William, a churchgoer and Shakespeare-reader, once kept his Rolls-Royce in his garage until July so that he would have to pay only half price for a license. Easygoing Robert, 57, plays gin rummy every afternoon, turned down a minister last week who promised to grow a beard if Robert would come to Sunday service. They run the business themselves with little top help from outside, gross an estimated $4,500,000 a year...
Main reason the ardent purists have not been more successful is that congregations like to sing. Listening to Palestrina, however purely performed, is not the same thing at all. Many a churchgoer has come to feel that the service is already less for the congregation than for the choir, and he resents any fresh attempts to turn his place of worship into what is beginning to look like a mere concert hall...
...specialty: the Battle of Chancellorsville. He married his boyhood sweetheart, Bess Wallace, whom he met in Sunday School when he was seven and she six. He is still a member of the First Baptist Church of Grandview. Mo., although he says he has never been "a very active churchgoer." The Christian Century called him "a religious man." For a while he skipped around on the fringes of Dr. Frank Buchman's Moral Re-Armament movement...
...back in the old parish "about the time they are raising money." But Pastor E. W. Bowman says the Senator is a generous contributor. Although last week's Christian Century called Truman "a religious man," the Senator confesses that he has "never been a very active churchgoer." Last Sunday he was fishing in Chesapeake Bay with Speaker Sam Rayburn. But his view of churches is catholic: "I think they are all headed the right place...
Many a U.S. churchgoer was shocked last week by a stained glass window. The window, intended for the Roman Catholic Chapel of Our Lady of Victory at the Norfolk Naval Operating Base, had been designed by Wilbur Herbert Burnham, a famed designer of church windows. But this one was different. It showed the Virgin Mary surrounded by tanks, antiaircraft guns, planes, blimps. Instead of the Infant Jesus, the Virgin was holding a destroyer-escort vessel...