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...Another Name. Among Protestants, the EPISCOPALIANS have been in the field longest, and their retreats tend to be more ascetic than those of other denominations. Near Brighton, Mich, the Episcopal Church supports a training center called Parishfield (capacity: 35), whose retreat schedule is typical of that in many Episcopalian retreat houses. Rising is at 6:30, chapel service at 7, breakfast at 7:30. The rule of silence is maintained until 8, when members of the community assist in cleaning rooms, washing dishes, etc. Group Bible study is at 9, followed by discussion of the Biblical texts...
...Truman formally accepted the honorary middle name of Swinomish, a moniker awarded him by the chief of Washington State's Swinomish Indians. himself as "electrician." Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913-20) Franklin D. Roosevelt crossed out his "Episcopalian" church affiliation, did not restore it until the 1924-25 edition. Just before 1940's Republican Convention, Democrat Wendell Willkie prophetically retrieved his form, altered his political affiliation to "Republican...
...handsome Barry Goldwater, 48, neither Modern Republicanism nor the big budget is easy to swallow. A third-generation Arizonan† and a working Episcopalian, he ran the family's two department stores with a flair for salesmanship (he promoted such products as "Antsy Pants"-men's shorts decorated with ants) and a bent for personal conservatism (his office was a cubbyhole in the basement of the Phoenix store). He broke into politics as a budget-cutting, corruption-fighting member of the Phoenix city council in 1949-52. Using his salesman's flair, he flew his own plane...
...Dick Daley, Candidate Austin had obvious merits to outweigh the fact that outside of Chicago he is practically unknown ("Who is he?" asked a dismayed downstate delegate when the word first got to Springfield). Richard Bevan Austin. 55, is an Episcopalian and will add diversity to a ticket on which there are already four Catholics. He has few enemies in the party, and his personal life-as family man (three sons), Chicago attorney (since 1926), assistant state's attorney (16 years) and judge (since 1953)-has been impeccable...
...Good Episcopalian Bess Truman was horrified, called out to Harry to stop-but he seemed not to hear. Recalls Bess: "I had to walk before the Baptists and the Methodists and tell him to stop cutting the grass on Sunday morning. He grinned at me, shut off the mower, put it in the garage-and he has not cut a blade of grass since that Sunday morning...