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...work, created in 1975 by Sculptor Edwina Sandys, 45, for the United Nations' Decade for Women, had been shown in galleries and art exhibits, but it had never before been displayed in a church. To New York Suffragan Bishop Walter Dennis, it was a "desecration" of Christian symbols. He urged parishioners to write the diocese's presiding bishop, the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore Jr., "if it shocks you as much as it did me." Cathedral Dean James Parks Morton, who organized the display with Moore's concurrence, responded that the effort to "send a positive message...
...mother, whom Tennessee always called "Miss Edwina," nourished the myth with illusory memories of a grand and gracious heritage. His father was a gruff and aggressive traveling shoe salesman, who, on rare home stays, taunted his son as a sissy and called him "Miss Nancy." His older sister Rose, an imaginative muse to Williams, tragically retreated into schizophrenia until a prefrontal lobotomy in 1937 immured her in a perpetual mental twilight...
...Edwina Z. Worsley Fort Lauderdale...
Emerging from the war as a dashing sublieutenant who had served at the Battle of Jutland, the young lord soon married a beautiful heiress named Edwina Ashley. By World War II he was a captain in command of a destroyer flotilla; the fearless skipper's own ship, H.M.S. Kelly, was mined off Newcastle, torpedoed off the German coast and finally sunk by German dive bombers off Crete. "Abandon ship or I'm going to sink you!" his admiral signaled when he refused to leave his bridge at one time. "Try it and I'll bloody well sink...
During his last two months of life, Gary Mark Gilmore was engaged in a strange and increasingly emotional correspondence with a girl named Amber Edwina Hunt and nicknamed Amber Jim. The daughter of a janitor in Murray, Utah, she is the state's first female Golden Glove boxer. She has won her first eight fights (against boys), seven of them by technical knockouts in the first round, the eighth in the second. She is a blonde fifth-grader, age eleven...