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...Abram Burkhart's farmer-father wanted his son to be a fertilizer salesman. His Mennonite mother prayed that he would enter the ministry. For the Burkhart family of Cumberland County, Pa. the issue was decided once & for all during World War I, when one of young Soldier Burkhart's best friends, who had hoped to be a minister, was killed. Roy made up his mind to enter the church. Today Dr. Roy Burkhart, pastor of the First Community Church of Columbus, Ohio, is the whirring dynamo of the growing community-church movement and an outstanding U.S. churchman...
...sensuous exuberance of the age of Drake, Spenser and Sidney. One was a self-portrait, at 30, fine-featured and candid-eyed, painted against Hilliard's favorite indigo-blue background. The biggest (see cut) was a 10⅛-inch painting of the buccaneering 3rd Earl of Cumberland. Besides portraits of courtiers, there were miniatures of a lovesick youth leaning against a tree, entangled in roses; a grave young man fingering a locket against a background of flames. Their flesh tones had faded, but they still shone with immaculate drawing, clean, jewel-like color, and a fine use of lace...
Auden is settled for the summer on Fire Island-off New York's Long Island -where he owns a tar-paper-covered shack near a sand dune. On one wall of his littered study Poet Auden keeps an immense map of Alston moor in Cumberland below the Roman Wall, his childhood country, whose limestone quarries, fells and valleys-and mining machinery -have persisted as bleakly beautiful imagery in all his work...
...helped many another war contractor. The checks and cash, he said, were just "campaign contributions," proceeds of private business transactions, funds to pay off notes he had signed to help the Garssons get a little ready cash. He had never made a dime out of the Cumberland Lumber Co. He had posed as Cumberland's owner, he said with a smirk, because no Kentuckian would work in the mill "if it were known that this company was owned by outside people who were Jews...
...under cross-examination last week May admitted that his personal bank account had gotten badly mixed up with Cumberland Lumber Co. funds. Confessed Andy: "I checked out money in the most convenient way on whichever account was available." Somehow he had forgotten to account for $15,000 worth of lumber Cumberland had sold on the open market. He admitted that he was in the habit of depositing large wads of cash in two strong-boxes he kept handy in Washington and at home...