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...Louis' United Hebrew Congregation. Rabbi Thurman, like Truman a 33rd degree Mason, had worked with him for many years in state Masonic activities; in 1949 he offered a prayer at Truman's inauguration, the second rabbi in history to participate in a presidential inaugural.- Others at the Jefferson Hotel's banquet table were the Very Rev. Paul C. Reinert, S.J., president of Roman Catholic St. Louis University, and Episcopalian Ethan A. H. Shepley, chancellor of Washington University. As the guest speaker, Baptist Truman had something useful to tell them all about that much-abused term, brotherhood. Excerpts...
ROBERT C. BARNETT Jefferson City...
...Other contenders: Political Philosopher Thomas Jefferson, Essayist James Madison, Diplomat John Quincy Adams, Historian Woodrow Wilson...
...Line. In Toledo, when a jittery woman passenger screamed every time the bus came to a halt, Driver Emily Jefferson finally stopped the bus for good, told her: "You make me nervous. I quit...
History, too, in 1953 took one of its most adventuous steps forward. After an old Yale alumnus remarked that "since Princeton has its Jefferson, why shouldn't Yale have its Franklin." President Griswold of Yale announced that, in association with the American Philosophical Society, Yale would undertake one of the greatest historical literary ventures of the century--it would collect and edit all the known papers of Benjamin Franklin...