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Last fortnight the U. S. Cowley Fathers got a new black-cassocked, shovel-hatted leader. Rev. Spence Burton, Superior General of the Society since 1924, had resigned to accept the suffragan bishopric of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Elected to succeed him was Rev. Granville Mercer Williams, handsome onetime metallurgical engineer. Last week Father Williams resigned a rectorship which he and his assistant Cowley Fathers had made noteworthy for nine years: St. Mary the Virgin in Manhattan...
Rumor in Manhattan last week was that, along with Father Williams, the other Cowley Fathers would leave St. Mary the Virgin, presumably taking the vimpa with them. In Boston next week Father Williams is to be an attending presbyter at the consecration of his predecessor, Bishop-elect Burton. At this service no vimpas will be used: the consecrator will be the Presiding Bishop of the Church, Henry' St. George Tucker, who has never worn a cope, much less a mitre...
...Most famed others: the white-robed Order of the Holy Cross, whose Father Frederick H. Sill founded and heads Kent School; the grey-robed Order of St. Francis...
...Durham, N. C., Heiress Doris Duke Cromwell, together with Husband James, donned cap and gown, marched in the centennial procession at Duke University which received its name and some $80,000,000 from Father James Buchanan Duke...
...Wisconsin, where he will become a Franciscan monk, went painfully popular Father Simon Borkowski. Since last September Father Simon has been "imprisoned" in his Vulcan, Mich. Roman Catholic rectory (TIME, Sept. 5) by picketing parishioners who objected to his bishop's transferring him to another diocese...