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Four years ago the Riverside Drive house of Mrs. Paul Condit-Smith, sister of the late General Leonard Wood, was dismantled, loaded on barges, taken to Long Beach, L. I. There it was remodeled to become St. John's Lutheran Church-by-the-Sea. Last week it became the property of a Long Beach businessman named Charles W. Ackerman. He was scarcely pleased to have it. Businessman Ackerman's troubles with St. John's Church-by-the-Sea were of long standing. Last winter, as chairman of the church council, he squabbled over policies with the pastor...
...those two eminently worthy old gentlemen Dr. Isaac Kauffman Funk and Dr. Adam Willis Wagnalls could have returned to earth last week to check up on their Literary Digest, they might have suffered enough of a shock to send them kiting back to their Lutheran heaven. As recently as two weeks ago there would have been no shock at all. For, two weeks ago, they would have found the Digest bearing a tasteful painting of horses & riders taking a water-jump in a steeplechase. (Not quite so happy as one Digest cover of a year ago showing a tot peering...
...Nazi candidate seemed a dangerous precedent to allow. Church diplomats tried to patch a truce between the German Christians and Bodelschwingherians by suggesting that Bishop von Bodelschwingh might retire after a few months in office in favor of Dr. Müller or a new neutral candidate, possibly Lutheran Bishop Schöffel of Hamburg. Suddenly Chancellor Hitler stepped in. Word was sent to Dr. Müller that the entire Nazi propaganda department, press and radio both, would be at his service to force a new election...
...Author's insatiable and restless curiosity has led him into many queer places and situations in his 47 years; his unabashed frankness in reporting his unusual adventures has paid him good dividends. Son of a Lutheran minister in Maryland, he was a newshawk on the Augusta, Ga. Chronicle, then worked his way for nine months at the University of Geneva, returned to the U. S. to go into advertising. Private in the French Army during the War, he was gassed at Verdun. After the War he started writing in Manhattan. One evening in 1924 he met an Arab, shortly...
Famed are the Benedictine and Carthusian (Chartreuse) monks for the excellent liqueurs that bear their names. Few Protestant church folk are celebrated for making or vending spirits. Lately, Lutheran Denmark has been pondering the idea. It began at a ministers' meeting held by Rt. Rev. A. J. Rud, Lutheran Bishop of Fyen (Funen Island). Bishop Rud told his ministers about Pastor Keiding of Valby, suburb of Copenhagen...