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...Line. In a little village beyond the Pindus range, the footsore and dog-tired Bigart found his man. Bigart met Markos and his foreign minister Roussos there. With a woman of the town as interpreter, they sat on the grass in a shady churchyard and talked...
...Senate will pay for his funeral. Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright, Senator James 0. Eastland, five Congressmen, scores of state officials, crowded into the Juniper Grove Baptist Church (built with Bilbo's donations) to attend the services. Five thousand humbler folk stood outside in the churchyard and listened to the services via loudspeakers...
Sunday, Feb.11 was a chill day of intermittent rain. In the dripping churchyard after service, Dean Beekman told his organist: "You never played hymns better." Whipp thanked him, and cheerfully set off to lunch with friends at Auteuil...
...approaches to the dock area, the Japs really showed what they could do. Their minefields were reported as dense as any the Germans laid in North Africa. Any position with heavy stone walls was turned into a strong point. Churches suited the Japs perfectly. One churchyard fortress had to be burned out with artillery, mortar fire and flamethrowers. The centuries-old walled city, the Intramuros, was a natural fortress. Colonel Lawrence K. ("Red") White, of the 148th, saw no hope of saving most of Manila's famous buildings. Where the Japs had artillery, he would use artillery, refusing...
...Appointed rector of quiet, 145-year-old St. Mark's in 1911, handsome, Scottish-born Dr. Guthrie quickly displayed a talent for religious showmanship, installed colored lights, gongs and incense, asked non-believers like Dancer Isadora Duncan to speak at services, symbolically tethered a black sheep in the churchyard. When in 1923, Dr. Guthrie put on a show of eurythmic dances in the church by six bare-legged Barnard girls, Bishop William Thomas Manning removed St. Mark's from his Episcopal visiting list (so that members had to be confirmed elsewhere), did not relent until 1932, when...