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...Harry Emerson Fosdick officially denied a widespread Canadian rumor that the basement of his Riverside Church (Manhattan) had been equipped with a bar to be operated as soon as Prohibition was repealed...
...Manhattan, influenza forced these actresses and singers to cancel scheduled performances: Eva Le Gallienne, Judith Anderson, Alice Brady, Lily Pons, Mary Garden, Also ill last week lay: President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in Prague and Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick in Manhattan, both with influenza ; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan, of coronary artery disease, in Lincoln, Neb.; Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel, after an abdominal operation, in Manhattan...
...public exposure. After an organ prelude including Bach's Prelude in E flat minor from "The Well-Tempered Clavichord" and "Blessed Jesu. We Are Here," the grave young bride followed the procession 250 ft. up an aisle banked in white chrysanthemums and Japanese pink lilies. Facing Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick and a chancel hedged with tall cypress trees, boxwood and more chrysanthemums, Groom Rockefeller ended the ceremony with the unusual words, "With this ring I thee wed and promise thee a husband's protection and care." The bride wore a short veil, severe gown, long train; she carried a bouquet...
...prevent his own bias influencing the treatment, he has quoted "directly wherever possible." The book, is, in fact, largely a culling of brief quotations from numerous modern elergymen and other writers, such as Fosdick, A. E. Taylor, Rabbi Wise, Dean Inge, etc., with no thorough examination of the cosmologies underlying any of the opinions. The chapter on "Various Kinds of Bodies," a series of such quotations, reminds one of the descriptions of the "momeraths." The effect is that of having heard the last five minutes of a hundred sermons. There is a rather extensive bibliography, but no index...
December 11, Harry E. Fosdick, Minister, The Riverside Church, New York...