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Unlike the splendor of Rome's parallel gesture, the Geneva meeting was stark and austere. Only the colorful garb of an Anglican bishop here & there relieved the somber black-robed meeting of hundreds of Protestant churchmen. From Calvin's pulpit in the gaunt Cathedral of St. Pierre the speakers discussed their project : a World Council of Churches which would bring the joint influence of Protestant and Orthodox Churches to bear on world affairs. Last week's decision : the first council will meet in Holland or Denmark in 1948. Meanwhile, the World Council will continue material relief...
Dean Blanding is a tall, gaunt, plain-drawling person who has come a long way from the small farm she was born on near Lexington, Ky. In her early teens, she got $10 a month for yanking on the bell ropes of the local Episcopal church. She often rode with her uncle, a horse-&-buggy doctor, as he made his rounds, and her earliest ambition was to be a doctor herself. But she settled to a more modest ambition when her father died while she was in high school; she borrowed money and enrolled at the New Haven, Conn. Normal...
Last week, after looking into the gaunt and dull-eyed face of liberated Europe for six months, the "nationalities editor" of the Cleveland Press came home. As gently as he could, in lectures and in print, Theodore Andrica would describe that haunting face to the "foreign" two-thirds of Cleveland's population, gathered in mass meetings, schools, churches, parlors. The Czechs, Serbs, and Slovenes would be grateful for news, however tragic, from the homeland. But sometimes it would be hard to look them...
There had never been anyone quite like him in U.S. history-the tall, gaunt youth from the Middle West, the harness maker's son who rose to be the second most powerful man in the land. He began as a social worker, but he was always more than that: a politician, a finagler, something of a playboy and something of an intellectual, a man who moved with equal ease in the circles of the rich and the tenements of lower Manhattan. In 1928, he met the man who gave his life direction...
Oaks are standing gaunt and bare...