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This week it got one. Garbed in gold vestments and flanked by New York's Metropolitan Leonty-the church's U.S. primate-and the bishops of Alaska and San Francisco, the Very Rev. Archimandrite Jonah was invested as the first Bishop of Washington, in San Francisco's Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral...
Lanky Bishop Jonah, 57, onetime officer in the Czarist army, studied for the priesthood in the U.S. For the past three years he has distinguished himself as dean of San Francisco's cathedral. His Washington diocese will number some 10,000, about 1,000 of them in the city itself...
...himself as "a recent convert" to Anglicanism, now serves as lay reader* in his village church near Exeter. He believes that his Mirror column may enable him to cover the field of applied Christianity in "20 or 30 articles," happily anticipates some hot controversy over such questions as whether Jonah ever really lived in the whale. Says he: "I hope we shall be interrupted there for some time...
...Dewey had remained almost clam-silent since his defeat last year, plugging away as governor of New York. This week his hand-picked candidate for mayor of New York (Judge Jonah J. Goldstein) was slated for a decisive beating at the polls, which was not likely to enhance Tom Dewey's political prestige. Governor Dewey also had his own personal hurdle ahead: he must win re-election as governor next year. (Current gossip had Jim Farley as his Democratic opponent.) But if Tom Dewey won in 1946, he could be a strong contender for the 1948 presidential nomination...
...Bubble Gum. Friday was his big day. In the morning the Mayor paid a surprise visit to a Manhattan traffic court, lectured and grimaced through 197 cases. At 10:30 Friday night, following Governor Dewey's dignified, half-hour endorsement of Republican-Liberal-Fusion Candidate Jonah J. Goldstein, Fiorello LaGuardia had one of his most sparkling innings. "You know," he cackled, "we prepared the studio today to hear the Governor. We put tapes on the windows, we braced ourselves, we wore lead-glass goggles, ready for the atomic bomb. And all we heard was the snap...