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...thank heaven," exclaimed Grouper Buchman, "for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front-line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism. My barber in London told me Hitler saved all Europe from Communism. That's how he felt. Of course, I don't condone everything the Nazis do. Anti-Semitism? Bad, naturally. I suppose Hitler sees a Karl Marx in every...
...Church of St. James the Less, the camp cost $600 as against preliminary estimates of $4,300. "God guidance is the answer," said Mr. Harriman. "We did not see how we could afford several thousand dollars to get our equipment from large supply houses, so we consulted God." The Groupers had 20 caddies carry tables for nothing from the town hall to the mess tent. "Guid ance," said Grouper Harriman. "That's what made me walk on the golf course just at that moment." The man in charge of the camp canteen, one James Mariano who claimed...
Next to Frank Buchman, beaming and circulating briskly among the numerous places where Assembly meetings were held, the most ubiquitous Grouper was A. S. Loudon Hamilton, the tall, burly, pink-cheeked Scot who is second in com mand in the Group's world army. It was in his Oxford rooms that the movement received its first impetus in 1921. Subsequently a footballer at Colgate University, Grouper Hamilton married, begat two children, continued to live on a basis of faith without ever accepting a salaried position. Said he last week: "It takes God's guidance to make a Scot...
...Despite Grouper Hamilton's expert stage-managing, there occurred a slip on Frank Buchman's 58th birthday last week. Arising at 4:45 a.m. for his "quiet time" of listening to God's directions, Founder Buchman looked forward to a day during which he would broadcast to England, the expenses to be paid as a birthday gift from his British followers. But that afternoon as Dr. Buchman was motoring to fulfill this engagement, the gasoline feed line of his automobile clogged, precious minutes passed and finally Grouper H. Kenaston Twitchell read the Founder's words into...
...other faith do good victuals play so big a part as they do in the faith founded and preached by well-fed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman. Any Oxford Grouper is at his best conversing politely, radiating earnest goodwill over a plate of food and a glass of plain water. Currently an International Team of 700 Groupers led by Dr. Buchman has been working in Geneva, lobbying spiritually at many a meal. Their efforts seemed to reach a climax when they visited the President of Switzerland (TIME, Sept. 23), but last fortnight that visit was out-climaxed when Dr. Buchman...