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After being revived with bread crumbs and a glass of water, the hen spent the whole day in the office and then left in the evening with Mr. Hardy. Mr. Hardy has recently moved to Randolph where he already has a flock of chickens. This newest addition, he says, is an excellent specimen of a Plymouth Rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Live Chicken Shipped to Leverett House Man Taken in Hand by Colonel Apted | 1/28/1938 | See Source »

...Another British bishop believed by his flock to be blaming himself into something like nervous prostration over Windsor last week, was the Rt. Rev. A. W. Blunt, Bishop of Bradford, England. It was he who preached the first Anglican sermon critical of King Edward VIII. This British newsorgans used as their excuse for abandoning their conspiracy of silence about Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 14, 1936, et seq.). According to friends of Dr. Blunt last week "his nerves have been badly shaken"; he recently took to his bed when scheduled to be presented to King George & Queen Elizabeth; and this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Loved a Lady | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...snug and dry as Most Rev. Nicholas Kedroff, their Archbishop, officiated at a service celebrating the Cathedral's 35th birthday.* Pungent incense swirled, Russian prelates' vestments gleamed in the candlelight during the long service in which Archbishop Kedroff, whose 35th birthday it was also, preached to his flock in Russian and English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dean on the Roof | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...standing. Father Balaban's bond was set at $40,000. He went to jail, since his congregation not only declined to raise the bond but ousted him as pastor. The U. S. head of the Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church, Bishop Zivoin Ristanovich, suspended Father Balaban, advised his onetime flock to "keep faith, remain quiet, and pray for a just ending of this shocking occurrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Balaban & Cash | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Ewart are all names to conjure with as well. They have material with which to capitalize on breaks, a defense to keep them out of trouble and a punter to get them out of holes. But Harvard has a smoother, more polished team. A more powerful line,--and a flock of breaks long overdue...

Author: By Donald B. Straus, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/16/1937 | See Source »

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