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During his ministry there, he took a lengthy round-the-world trip as secretary to Y.M.C.A. Leader Sherwood Eddy. A frequent globetrotter, his acquaintance among world churchmen is wide and cordial; one of Amsterdam's highlights was the beardy kisses of welcome that Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens gave him in the robing room before the opening service. In 1928, Oxnam became president of DePauw University in Indiana; in 1936, at 44, he was elected bishop-then Methodism's youngest-and assigned to the Omaha area...
...intention of giving up Wagner, but she hopes to try some of her new roles (Aïda, La Gioconda, Desdemona) at the Met next year. Manhattan has been cordial to her; but dependable Astrid can't help feeling a special affection for demonstrative Mexico City: "It's such fun here. If they like you, they just won't let you offstage...
...scripts had referred to Wyoming as the "most cordial. . . most fertile . . . most primitive" of states, to Utah as the state "where men have as many wives as they can support." In Nevada, the "two principal cities are in competition. In Las Vegas people get married and in Reno they get divorced." New England, said the scripts, was "founded by hypocrisy" and Texas...
...these antics, the New York Post's Saloon Editor Earl Wilson reacted thus: "Jim was cordial and I've nothing personal against him-he just made me sick, that...
During a Freshman's first few days in Cambridge, one of the less memorable events of his academic career takes place. He and his "adviser" solemnly devote fifteen minutes to laying out an academic program, a process which is likely to consist of two sets of cordial handshakes sandwiching a signature...