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...clashes with the Government, the outlook was none too bright. Last year the president of Episcopal St. Paul's University, Tokyo, was forced to resign because, in reading the hallowed Imperial rescript on education in chapel on a national holiday, he stood on the altar steps, below the lectern where the Bible is read, thus ranking the Mikado lower than...
...rose over dewy treetops, the chimes pealed out Nearer, My God, to Thee. The climax of the two-hour service: when diminutive Nancy Brown stepped to the lectern, peeped over and in a tremulous voice spoke to her readers for the first time...
...transport men who went to the National Aviation Forum in Washington to meet old friends, hear speeches, were not surprised to find the name of Grover Loening on the list of speakers. Sitting in the Department of Commerce auditorium, they saw toothy Grover Loening square off behind the lectern, lay down his spectacles, and tell them what they were missing...
This week the well-worn Providence, R. I. public library offered an unusual exhibition by a gifted man who calls himself a "tramp printer." It will be shown later in New England, Midwest and Far West cities. Containing 768 items, the collection ranges from the classic Oxford Lectern Bible and some 400 other books to waggish menus, from paintings to a "No Trespassing" sign. The "tramp printer" is Bruce Rogers, greatest modern book designer. At 68, a trim, blue-eyed, steady-handed oldster who might pass for a waggish sailing captain, Bruce Rogers is to U. S. book-designing...
Many a small church has to put up with the cacophony of an unskilled choir. From England last week came news of how Rev. V. B. Yearsley, vicar of Benenden in Kent, rigged up a phonograph with a volume control under his lectern, obtained a number of records of pieces which he instructed his unskilled choir to sing. Vicar Yearsley reported: "When my choir sings badly, I drown them by turning up the volume of a gramophone record-perhaps of Westminster Choir...