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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raleigh, N.C., 13 Episcopal bishops laid their hands on the head of 30-year-old Rev. William Jones Gordon Jr. When the hands were lifted, William Gordon was not only bishop of Alaska's missionary district but the youngest Episcopal bishop ever consecrated. Said he afterward: "I was trudging along in the snow last year, behind a dog team, when I hear this Indian yelling to me he's got a message. It was from the House of Bishops. I read it and just about fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Vineyard, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Miss Hellman's play is the kind a stage cast can really sink its teeth in; and it has been screened with a Broadway kind of incisiveness. It isn't in any pure sense a movie; but under Michael Gordon's direction it is a nearly perfect example of how to film a play. There is hardly a shot which does not set up visual tension against the lashing, steel-spring dialogue; there is not a single performance which is short of adequate; the work of Miss Eldridge, Mr. O'Brien and Betsey Blair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Winchell received the letter two weeks ago, but referred it to his Boston agent when he became suspicious of the typewritten signatures. The names given were those of former president Frederic D. Houghteling '50, Richard G. Neisser '50, Eliot G. Gordon '47, Bernard P. Cohen '51, Donald M. Glsh '56, and Alexander J. Meigs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Brands as Fraudulent Pro-Arab Letter to Winchell | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

Harvard Club of New Haven: I. Gordon Colby, 205 Church Street, New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Club Head Asks '48 To Join Locals | 5/25/1948 | See Source »

Flag Down. Shortly after sunrise on May 14, the Union Jack flapped down from its staff over Government House, on Jerusalem's Hill of Evil Counsel. Without farewells from Jew or Arab, the British Governor General, tired-looking General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, drove to the airport in his bullet-proof Daimler. He flew to Haifa in an R.A.F. plane. There, at 10:05 a.m., he stepped into a naval launch and was sped out to the light cruiser Euryalus in the anchorage. On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy (". . . His father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reluctant Dragon | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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