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Joseph Wright's funeral climaxed the popular movement against the Dictator. At the request of the boy's mother, there were no speeches, no noise, no overt demonstrations. But practically the entire city of San Salvador gathered to watch the procession. Hundreds followed the coffin in absolute silence...
Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary will have a new president in July 1945. At the Seminary's 108th commencement last week it was announced that tall, able, energetic Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, professor of systematic theology, will succeed Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, who has been president for 19 years. Dr. Coffin will have reached 68, Union's retirement age, next June...
...Murdering His Sister showed a frenzied, popeyed peon withdrawing a knife from the neck of a screaming woman. In Collision Between a Streetcar and a Hearse, a small, gay trolley car was seen crashing into a funeral cart, stopping just short of running over a corpse in the splintered coffin. Zapatista Deathshead, a grisly political cartoon, chronicles Zapata's rebellion against Diaz (1910). There were revolting monstrosities, dire prophecies of the end of the world, dances of death, images of delirium. For in the main José Posada addressed an illiterate people who could best be reached with...
...year had passed since the Rev. George William Edwards saved the minuscule mission from folding. For Mr. Edwards it was his 53rd birthday and a milestone in an unusual religious experience, a kind of modern Pilgrim's Progress. Says Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Sloane Coffin: "Mr. Edwards' case is unique...
Leading roles are going to Pfc Seymour Aronoff, Pfc Phillip Brown, Pfc Arnold Caplan, Pfc Sol Chafkin, Cpl. Charles Freitag, and Pfc Bert Smith. Cpl Michael Fedorchak is art director, Cpl Coffin is musical director, and Cpl Ed. L. Kandib is production secretary...