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Last week, grey-haired, grey-eyed, forceful Helen Kenyon was handed another "first" and a big job along with it. The General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches elected her Moderator-the first woman to head the church. Her election was recognition of Miss Kenyon's work as a director and vice president of the church's Board of Home Missions and as first woman chairman of the Missions Council...
...addition to Moderator Kenyon, Congregationalists also acquired a book last week. Titled A Book of Worship for Free Churches (Oxford, $1.50), it is designed to bring new order into the every-minister-for-himself system of worship that has hitherto been the practice in Congregational churches...
Remembered Exile. All the Fugitives except Davidson have long since fled Vanderbilt and the South, but some are still favorably remembered-and particularly John Crowe Ransom. Last week Ransom, now a professor at Ohio's little Kenyon College (and editor of the Kenyon Review), celebrated his 60th birthday. In his honor, the Sewanee Review, the oldest of U.S. literary quarterlies, has devoted its entire forthcoming summer number to an estimate of Ransom as poet, critic and teacher...
Ransom left Vanderbilt in 1937 for a variety of reasons, among them the low pay (after 23 years, a reported $3,600). At Kenyon he became professor of poetry, gathered another galaxy of bright lights around him,* and in 1939 founded the Kenyon Review, one of the most distinguished of U.S. little magazines...
...Among U.S. poets and critics who will teach at Kenyon's new School of English during the next three summers: Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell, Cleanth Brooks, Lionel Trilling, William Empson, Matthiessen, R. P. Blackmur, Yvor Winters...