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Illinois. George E. ("Boss") Brennan, Wet and Democratic, v. Frank L. Smith, Republican Dry, v. Hugh S. Magill, Independent Republican Dry. Until Churchman-School-teacher Magill entered the campaign with his purity festoons (TiME, Oct. 11), Illinois was considered safe for "Insullated" Colonel Smith. If Mr. Magill can poll 200,000 votes, "Boss" Brennan will come out of the Wetlands of Cook County (Chicago), East St. Louis and Peoria with enough of a plurality to win the Senatorship...
...battlefront. The press has called him, at various times, the Omnibus Bishop, the King's First Bishop, the Breezy Bishop, the Bishop of the Slums. Punch one lampooned him in some gentle verses.* Before starting for the U. S. he offered his palace rent-free "to any churchman or churchwoman who will pay the salaries of the servants and the taxes on the house." Some years ago he stated that while his income was ?10,000 ($48,700) a year, his expenditures were ?10,795. Only ?294 ($1,432) went for personal expenses...
...supports to the weak-kneed. They became the special glory of early Christian art, and today are extremely handsome. Naturally mystics associate it with the Shepherd symbol. Once it was suggested that it had often been utilized to hook in the weak-willed and wandering. The Eastern Catholic churchman has a short pole, resembling and being used as an ordinary walking stick...
...Sacred Whisker." Charles I of England had his head chopped off in 1649. Some one pulled a whisker from the chin. That whisker became a "sacred" symbol to be venerated by Anglo-Catholics when they celebrated "King Charles the Martyr's Day," Jan. 30. At this veneration the Churchman, upright and respected Protestant weekly, took another crack last week when it reported the protest of Dean Howard Chandler Robbins of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine against "the tendency [of Anglo-Catholics] to import into America certain English viewpoints and emphases which are alien and exotic...
...pole vaulting, boxing, trap shooting and motor boating is being hooted at, for lack of realism meets not with the approval of everyone. Charles C. Marshall, Manhattan lawyer and trustee of the Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, last week flayed the idea in a letter to the Churchman: "If that [sporting] life is to be symbolized in it [the Cathedral], then the genius of the architect should find some way of connecting it in expression with the sacramental life. The architect's design peculiarly subject to that curse of bad art-incongruity...