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...England flock sometimes complained that 'the Bishop's popularity as a speaker took him away too much. But he did what no predecessor ever did: he visited every one of the 1,032 churches in his area...
...which was once the mansion of Ottawa's lumber and railroad heir, the late John Frederick Booth (father-in-law to Erik, Prince of Denmark). The U.S.S.R. bought the vast pile when Ottawa and Moscow re-established relations two years ago. To the huge reception rooms, socialite Ottawans flock for the capital's poshest receptions...
Lieut. Francis Xavier Buckley, a carrot-thatched engineer from Philadelphia, was tooling his jeep northward from Terracina along the coastal road, accompanied by a private. When they came to a wrecked bridge near Borgo Grappa, they got out and started to walk, escorted by a flock of politely curious Italians on bicycles. At 7:31 Buckley met a force moving south from the Anzio beachhead - Captain Benjamin Harrison Souza of Honolulu and his platoon of engineers. The captain and lieutenant stared at each other...
...first acts of the Bolshevik Government in 1918 was to whittle down the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Church was soon split into feuding factions. Biggest chip off the old flock was the schismatic, Bolshevik-supported Living Church whose heresiarch was Alexander Vedensky, formerly an Archpriest (a Russian clerical rank one step higher than a priest). Later Vedensky split with the Living Church, finally participated in an ecclesiastical fusion called the New Church. But as the Soviet Government's flirtation with the Orthodox Church got under way, Vedensky dropped out of sight, in the Russian fashion...
Disaster's Messengers. The Red Fleet, which now has a chance to regain domination of the Black Sea, is headed by an ancient 12,000-ton craft called a battleship 33 years ago. But it also includes five cruisers, 27 modern destroyers, 50 submarines, a flock of 60-ft. PTs, a small aircraft carrier (named Stalin...