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...Manhattan, the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church announced that dollars were piling high in the collection plate in response to Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill's radio appeal for contributions to a special world relief fund. Indications were that the $1,000,000 Episcopal goal would be comfortably exceeded...
...York Times Sunday classified automobile advertisements, sandwiched between a '47 Kaiser and a '42 Lincoln, appeared the following: "KNOX, ancient 1900, air-cooled, one cylinder, good running condition, good tires...
...Henry Knox Sherrill (Sun. 11:30 a.m., Mutual). The Presiding Protestant Episcopal Bishop in America, in an appeal for European relief...
...would, old Armyman Stimson could not hide his real convictions. Though he found Navy Secretary Frank Knox "a man of robust integrity without any trace of pettiness," he could not say the same for the Navy as a whole. The whole trouble, he summed up acidly, was "the peculiar psychology of the Navy Department, which frequently seemed to retire from the realm of logic into a dim religious world in which Neptune was God, Mahan his prophet, and the United States Navy the only true Church...
Poet-Biographer Carl Sandburg turned a wind-blown 70, got two public parties: one in Chicago, where old friends and literary lights gave him a wire-recorder (to record his balladry); the other in his native Galesburg, Ill., where Knox College gave him a cake and Sandburg gave an address. The Lincoln man cleared up a point about himself: "My father was . . . a Republican. I voted for Eugene Debs and Hoover, and if Eisenhower is nominated will vote for him. I am an independent or maybe a mugwump...