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...amateur yachtsman, a onetime (1909-19) captain in the British Royal Fusiliers, Bishop Shedden has since 1919 been spiritual lord of the Bahama, Turk and Caicos Islands-a diocese embracing 13,122 church members, 83 churches, extending some 175,000 square miles of land and sea. To visit his flock he had embarked on a six-week boating trip, taking with him Eva Shedden, his sister and housekeeper, Rev. Donald Knowles, an Anglican missionary, and a crew headed by Capt. Joseph Taylor, Negro...
...Mary's Episcopal Cathedral at Memphis, Tenn., stands the house of the Cathedral's dean. Here, in 1921 from Georgia, came Rev. Israel Harding Noe,- with his wife, Mrs. Ellen Morris Camblox Noe. Friendly, more personable in appearance than she, a good conversationalist, he guided his large flock ably, over pulpit and radio, until he came to be known as one of Memphis' most popular churchmen. A liberal, a patrician, he distinguished himself-without seeking notoriety-in such matters as an attack last month on Tennessee's famed anti-evolution laws. He considered his home life...
...third type of ant has golden hair. On the golden hair is a substance agreeable to worker ants. Therefore the golden-haired queen may invade a brunette queen's province at will; the workers will flock to the invader; ants prefer blondes...
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, general overseer of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church of Zion, Ill., steward of all its earthly treasure, appeared before 1,500 of his flock last week in Zion Tabernacle. Since he returned from his trip around the world to prove that it is flat (TIME, March 16), it. had been reported that he was dying. "I shall not die until 1976!" he cried. (He is now 61.) "I merely-scalded my foot while bathing. I was a silly fool to scald myself and will never go near a bathtub again as long as I live...
...train its Signal Corps pigeons. When he was transferred from Philadelphia to Fort Monmouth, N. J., it took Arthur some two years to get used to the change. But when he did consent to rule the Fort Monmouth roost, Arthur astounded the signalmen. He would help them teach a flock of young "squeakers" to home, by swooping down and herding the novices...