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Dean De Wolfe, who helped spark the Episcopalians' Forward Movement, may well make the cathedral's work measure up to the grandeur of its fabric. In twelve years he swelled the congregation of small St. Andrew's Church, Kansas City, from 90 to 1,100, housed in a fine new, debt-free Gothic church. His Low-Church parish in Houston feared he might be too High-Church when he went there in 1934. But friendly, straightforward Dr. De Wolfe soon had them genuflecting and liking it. Says he: "I'm not interested in high...
Reaching the spot, searchers found cool, collected authorities, heard the true explanation: a barrage balloon had broken its moorings, and lest its trailing wires short-circuit power lines a French pursuit plane had shot it down. Parisians had mistaken floating fabric for parachutists...
Harvard is out of joint today; the fabric of its society threatens to give at the seams. It is a strange time of year--this exam period, when for once the students work while the Faculty plays. Along the Charles the windows light up quickly as darkness comes, and hands reach up to pull the shades, then fall back to turning the pages. Blue books are every day laid in neat little piles, A--M and N--Z, as if on a sacrificial altar. Alarm clocks jangle so early that they scare the mice back into their holes. Extra chairs...
...cowboy stopped for a few days - most of them left lice -or a river baptism relieved the monotony: "As the women waded into the river, gasping with every breath, their long wrappers floated about their legs. Brother Jim, mindful of their virtue, would stoop and shove the dry fabric down, holding fast to the lady with one hand, and shove and shove until the robe had become wet enough to sink of its own weight...
...Japanese Government, which strictly forbids speculation in other commodities, does not mind in this case. > Textile-statisticians last spring observed that there was a discrepancy in Japanese silk statistics. The Japanese said that domestic consumption of silk goods was sharply up, they said elsewhere that production of silk fabrics was declining instead of increasing. Last week this discrepancy no longer existed. Reason: the Japanese had given up publishing statistics on silk fabric production...