Word: episcopalian
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Chicago's new superintendent of schools is a genial Rotarian with a glad hand and a quick mind, who has run Kansas City's schools for the past seven years. He also heads the American Association of School Administrators. A preacher at heart, Episcopalian Herold Hunt likes to fill in for vacationing ministers (he always draws a big crowd), often preaches to his teachers, too ("Don't be a grouch, avoid the 'little God' complex"). But Kansas City teachers remember him with affection: he got more money for his teachers than any man before...
...Episcopalian himself, Angel has done sculpture for Manhattan's Roman Catholic St. Patrick's and Pittsburgh's East Liberty Presbyterian Church. Like most of his work, Angel's new eight-foot Saint John is 13th Century Gothic in style, but, says Angel, "I use all my knowledge of the human figure, so what we call Gothic is Gothic with a difference." The difference is sometimes too marked to miss. Like most attempts to recreate in one century what came naturally in another, Angel's work has more finish than feeling. It suffers from a kind...
...Wrong. Henry Wallace is an Episcopalian...
White-haired Dancer Ruth St. Denis, celebrating what she chose to call her "70th rebirthday" in Los Angeles, reported joyfully that she was founding a Church of the Divine Dance. "People mustn't think this is a phony," said she. "I am an Episcopalian." This church, however, would be "universal, nonsectarian." Dancer St. Denis hoped to get ministers in to preach guest-sermons; she would preach herself; and she and a "rhythmic choir" would explain things further by dancing.* Mystical-minded, dead-earnest St. Denis had often toyed with such a project before, but nothing much ever came...
Last week, in the University's musty old Mandel Hall, the first Hoover lectures were delivered before a thousand-odd Chicagoans. The lecturer: liberal, ecumenical-minded Bishop Angus Dun of Washington, D.C. Said Episcopalian...