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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minded Bishop Sherrill deeply regretted the convention's postponement of action on unity with the Presbyterians, confessed to "a desperate feeling" about the state of society. Said he: "For the first time in my life I don't know what kind of a world my children and grandchildren will have to live in. ... I hope in so far as possible for a united Christian approach to world problems. How can we hope for nations to cooperate when we do not cooperate religiously? I see no immediate hope for Christian unity, but the necessity for it is imperative...
This year Unitarian Park, bald-pated at 73, retires at last from the active ministry. He will spend more time with his eight grandchildren and further develop his amateur virtuosity at printing ("I am an old-fashioned type plugger"), carpentry ("I stick to plane surfaces, straight lines, and right angles") and photography. But he and his wife plan to remain in Boston. "Whenever the congregation wants me," said he last week, "they'll just have to whistle...
While he practices at his piano, Valencia-born Iturbi often dictates letters to his secretary or talks to his two grandchildren. He speaks to his grandchildren in Spanish, to his butler in Italian, to his close friend Director Jean Negulesco in French, to others in a somewhat mangled English...
Iturbi mugged with Sinatra in Anchors Aweigh, played The Donkey Serenade and conducted an 18-piano ensemble in a Technicolor thrashing of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. In his fifth picture (Holiday in Mexico) he appears with three other Iturbis-his sister, Amparo Iturbi, and his two grandchildren, Antonia and Teresa...
...Succeeds Caesar? Behind him Joe Patterson, moody millionaire and reformed Socialist, left an anxious question for his hirelings and rival press lords to ponder. What would happen to the gaudy Daily News, now that its heart had stopped beating? The answer might rest with two other grandchildren of old Joseph Medill, who founded a fabulous dynasty when he bought into the Chicago Tribune six years before the Civil...