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Greatest U. S. Protestant layman is Dr. John Raleigh Mott. For more than 50 years Dr. Mott, a serene-faced man of disciplined energy, has traveled the world for the Y. M. C. A. and the International Missionary Council. The I. M. C., coordinator of Protestant foreign missions, re-elected Dr. Mott its chairman at its meeting in Madras last winter. Dr. Mott, now 74, requested that his term be limited to three years. Last week he addressed the Foreign Missions Conference of North America at Swarthmore College...
Married. Nina Barbara Raskob, 21, ninth of Financier John Jacob Raskob's 13 children; and Charles Wesley Lyon Jr., 23, University of Virginia Law School graduate; in Centreville, Md. Among the guests: New York's ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith...
When Rev. John Crocker, Episcopal Chaplain of Princeton University, was considering an offer to go to St. Paul's School as its headmaster last year (TIME, Aug. 8), his good friend and old headmaster, Groton's Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody, urged him to take the job. "Jack" Crocker, like St. Paul's, is High Church, and Dr. Peabody believed he would be happy there. But Crocker turned down St. Paul's, as he had turned down nominations for the Episcopal bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week he got an invitation he did not refuse. With...
...Many another orchestra and soloist twanged and blared it. It was even played in Hawaiian style. A local radio station dramatized the life of its author. All this hullabaloo in Washington, D. C. celebrated a work which first took U. S. ears by storm 50 years ago: John Philip Sousa's The Washington Post March...
...march was dedicated to an army post, or the Post Office department, or perhaps had something to do with a post horn. Actually, it was a theme song (before the days of theme songs), commissioned in 1889 by a newspaper, the twelve-year-old Washington Post.* Washington-born John Sousa, 34, son of a longtime member of the Marine Band, had become its leader. The heavy-bearded bandmaster dashed off the march, had the Band play it on the Smithsonian Institution grounds, where 25,000 people gathered for the presentation of prizes in a children's essay contest sponsored...