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Almost any audience larger than a twosome has an attraction for California's Governor Goodwin Jess Knight, who travels tirelessly around the state with his big right hand ready for the shake and his vocal cords for the speech. But last week "Goody" Knight conspicuously stayed away from a banner Republican gathering in Southern California. Reason: the guest of honor was Vice President Richard Nixon, a fellow Californian whose hand Governor Knight prefers not to shake...
...Daily Sketch last week. But Herbert Gunn is very much of an editor (the Sketch's circulation has jumped from 600,000 to 1,000,000 since he took charge 18 months ago). When he saw how many readers wrote in about antireligion BBC broadcasts by Psychologist Margaret Knight (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.), he saw a circulation builder. "The boldest discussion ever attempted by a newspaper." the Sketch proclaimed a few weeks later: IF CHRIST CAME BACK...
Donald K. David, retiring Dean of the Business School, yesterday received the Knight's Cross, First Class, of the Royal Order of St. Olav, from the Norwegian government...
Died. Charles Donagh Maginnis, 88, veteran U.S. designer and architect of ecclesiastical buildings, e.g., the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, the bronze doors of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Knight of Malta by appointment (1945) of Pope Pius XII, twice (1937 and 1938) president of the American Institute of Architects; in Boston...
...Keep this woman off the air! Britain is a Christian country." So wrote the London Daily Sketch when Psychologist Margaret Knight advised parents over BBC to straighten out their children on the "myths" of Christianity (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.) In the current weekly Commonweal, British Correspondent Michael P. Fogarty, a Roman Catholic, argues that Mrs. Knight actually struck a blow for Christianity in Britain. He adds: "the idea that Britain is a 'Christian country' is at best a half-truth . . . There is a mass of what [have been called] 'four-wheeler Christians, people who arrive...