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...resignation of Liberia's Bishop Robert Erskine Campbell, whose health had been wrecked after ten years on the job. Said Bishop Campbell: "Someone else should have a chance at it." The someone else whom the Bishops elected, after seriously considering withdrawing entirely from Liberia, was Rev. Leopold Kroll. This tall, hearty, deep-voiced churchman of 61 has missionized among men of many colors: red Wisconsin Indians, brown Hawaiians, black Haitians...
...Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine last week Bishop-elect Kroll was consecrated by an exceedingly noteworthy company of his Episcopal colleagues. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry was the consecrator. Co-consecrators were retiring Bishop Campbell of Liberia and Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. Bishop Robert Emmet Gribbin of western North Carolina was the gospeler; Suffragan Bishop Charles Kendall Gilbert of New York, the Epistler. Bishop Paul Matthews of New Jersey and Suffragan Bishop Arthur Selden Lloyd of New York presented the candidate for consecration. Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island preached...
...Liberia whither Bishop Kroll starts this month he will meet his son Leopold Jr., who now labors in the jungle as a missionary member of the Order of the Holy Cross...
...brother Francis, onetime Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Mrs. George Biddle is drinking coffee with Malcolm Ross, pressagent for the NLRB. Edward P. Rowan, Chief of the Treasury's Painting & Sculpture Section, is hanging up his coat. For the Attorney General's office Artist Leon Kroll did a mural sketch of "Triumphant Justice," which observers last week thought they could identify as liberal Justice Harlan F. Stone...
...ordinary U. S. citizen were given a blank check and told to go out and buy, according to his own taste, a new painting by a U. S. artist, he would probably pass up the works of Benton, Curry, Wood, Kroll and Speicher, invest in a seascape by Frederick Judd Waugh. Later he would be considerably surprised to learn that the Bentons, the Currys, the Woods, the Krolls and the Speichers all looked disdainfully down their artistic noses at Oldster Waugh (pronounced Waw). Last week for the second successive year Artist Waugh won the $200 prize for the most popular...