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...draft director, had already announced: Curran was a draft delinquent for having left the country without notifying his board. McDermott personally certified the case to the appeals board. The decision: Curran is 1A, has until Oct. 15 to appear before the local board. Said its chairman, Baptist Clergyman Francis K. Shepherd: "We're a draft board and we have certain obligations to discharge. We try to do that honestly and fairly, without considering a man's politics-whether he's a union official or an industry head. . . . We certainly will not be influenced by any columnist...
...Norwegian brothers because they are . . . brothers in the faith. They fight for the ideals that I, too, have sworn to fight for. If for fear of men I should sit a passive onlooker I should be a traitor to my Christian faith, to my Danish mind and to my clergyman's oath. It is better to damage Denmark with regard to Germany than to Jesus...
Bishop Wand also has a robust sense of humor. One of his favorite stories is about himself. While Wand was Archbishop of Brisbane, he visited a young clergyman in the interior. The young man was unmarried, ate all his meals at a rather simple restaurant to which he invited His Grace of Brisbane. The waitress knew her regular customers and took the young clergyman's order first. Then she turned to Archbishop Wand, wearing his reddish purple rabat (clerical bib) under his clerical collar to indicate that he was in Episcopal Orders. "And now, Robin Red Breast," said...
Katharine Cornell, on the porch of her home on Martha's Vineyard, heard a call for help, traced it to a ravine, where she found an Episcopal clergyman. Climbing there, he had brought a boulder down on him and broken his leg. Actress Cornell whipped up a makeshift splint, applied it to the ministerial leg, briskly bundled the cleric off to the hospital in her station wagon...
...Christians who find it difficult to reconcile their faith with participation in war, a famed Protestant clergyman last week made a Christian's answer, A Preacher Looks At War (MacMillan; $1.25). Daniel Alfred Poling tells why he sees no conflict with Christian faith in the defense of the things on which Christianity is based...