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...Right Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop-elect of the Protestant Episcopal Church (TIME, Sept. 30), has joined thousands of other Americans in a heartbreaking project: house-hunting. Because his new job's headquarters will be in Manhattan, the Bishop must give up the comfortable, diocese-owned brownstone house on Boston's Commonwealth Avenue, when he takes office on Jan. 1. In New York he will not find the same hospitality: the Episcopal Church owns no permanent home for its Presiding Bishop...
...Bishop. Henry Knox Sherrill knew what he wanted to do by the time he entered Yale at 16. Fellow classmates (1911) remember him as a quiet, hardworking student who earned his way by waiting on tables and janitor jobs, who spent his spare time with books, billiards and social work in New Haven's slums. At Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge he stood out as the most respected, though youngest, member of his class. He was ordained a priest at 24, while assisting at Boston's famed, gloomy Trinity Church, where later he became rector...
Writer-director-producer Dudley Nichols (The Informer, The Long Voyage Home) has oversimplified, but he has not shirked his job. The romantic love theme is subordinated to the hard business of dramatizing a scientific subject. He also got efficient performances out of Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger and the late Philip Merivale...
...anticipated, Connecticut Republicans last week nominated vote-getting Raymond E. Baldwin as their off-year candidate for the U.S. Senate. To succeed Baldwin as governor the G.O.P. pinned its hopes on tall, quick-tongued James L. McConaughy, head of United China Relief and onetime college president (Wesleyan, Knox). Said McConaughy (rhymes with Donahey) to the delegates: "No one has ever named an apple after me. You are taking a chance in choosing a candidate with a name as hard to spell and pronounce as McConaughy." His almost certain Democratic opponent: ex-Price Boss Chester Bowles...
...solution, says Knox, is to make the poorhouses richer by selling them what they most need: U.S. know-how. Last week, as a starter in his new job, Knox made just such a deal with China, one of the poorest of the world's poorhouses...