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While Dr. Hart was turning down bishoprics, he was very busy filling top-flight pulpits. His first charge was as curate of old St. Michael's, the fashionable church in Charleston, in his native South Carolina. From there he went to Christ Church, Macon, Ga., then to St. Paul's, Chattanooga-one of the biggest churches in Tennessee. In 1934 he was called to St. John's, Washington, "the Church of the Presidents," just across Lafayette Square from the White House. In 1940 he went on to Boston's Byzantine Trinity Church, made famous by Phillips...
General Burns takes over Ordnance in June, when the four-year term of Major General Charles Macon Wesson expires. Under Brass Hat "Bull" Wesson, Army Ordnance had a mottled record. The start of World War II caught it without an outstanding tank design or artillery piece, and with its new soldier's helmet-to replace the neck-exposing World War I helmet-not yet in production. A year ago, most of official Washington still thought that Ordnance was bumbling and boggling, overdue for a shakeup. Since then it has done better, has brought in guns and tanks...
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...John Keats. Ranked as a foremost bibliophile and holding the position of Curator of Rare Books in the Library of Congress, Houghton possesses one of the most extensive Keats' collections. This will now be on deposit in the Library and, combined with the older Amy Lowell collections, forms a macon far all students of the English poet...
Thrice-burnt by its disastrous experiences with the Shenandoah, .the Macon, the Akron, the U.S. Navy has dreaded lighter-than-air craft. Nevertheless, a little group of enthusiasts, led by Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, plugged persistently for a whopping airship program. The new blimp squadrons are the first reward of their efforts...