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Seated side by side in the House Education and Labor Committee room were New York's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church in his spare time, and West Virginia's Democratic Representative Cleveland Bailey, who preaches the gospel pretty much according to John L, Lewis. Under discussion was the $1.6 billion school-construction program and Powell's attempt to amend it so as to bar funds to any school district that practices segregation...
...less than 60 books have appeared over Graves's signature, but the bulk of them have been scholarlike works, such as The Nazarene Gospel Restored (TIME July 26) and The White Goddess, or novels written purely as potboilers. Some of the novels, e.g., I, Claudius; Claudius the God; Sergeant Lamb's America, are far better than most good-novelists' novels, but they matter little to Author Graves. What does matter is his poems, which year by year have so grown in number that now, in the latest volume, Collected Poems 1955 (Doubleday; $4.50) the hand-weeded best...
...Ordre de la Courtoisie Française. "Amiability," complained Ranville, "has given way to vulgarity and meanness." To restore the old politesse, Ranville invited the knights and ladies of the new order to pay dues ranging from 500 to 10,000 francs to be used to spread the gospel of good humor, love and fraternity. Some 2,500 adherents joined the cause, but somehow the concierges of Paris still glared as fiercely as ever, telephone operators continued to insult callers, and the prostitutes on the Champs-Elysées went right on spitting "Papa" at anyone over 20 who rejected...
...Revolutionary associations, Holworthy Hall has a history of professors and poultry, of royalty and college pranks. Some of the building's history would, in fact, probably not please Sir Matthew Holworthy, who in 1681 left $1000 of his fortune for the "promotion of learning and the promulgation of the Gospel...
...state, which was the subject of his four lectures at Union last week. The attitude of Christianity toward most modern problems, says Cullmann, can only be found by deduction from the principles of the New Testament, but the Christian attitude toward the state, he holds, is explicit in the Gospel and at its very heart...