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...York court last week officially upheld the right of an Episcopal bishop to fire a minister under his jurisdiction. As he listened to his friend, Justice Meier Steinbrink, deliver the long decision upholding the provisions of Episcopal canon law, old Rector John Howard Melish, 74, slumped forward in his seat and rested his forehead on his cane...
...conceived book which treats the dawning of that period in American history known as the Harvardian Age at which time scholarly James Bryant Conant was Chief Executive, Arthur M. Schlesinger IV proves as competent a chronicler of events in the nation's history as did his great-grandfather Arthur Meier Schlesinger, author and one-time Francis Higginbotham professor of history, Harvard; and grandfather Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who carried off a Pulitzer prize for his book, The Age of Jackson...
Harvard last week hired a new associate professor of history. He was only 28, had neither master's nor doctor's degree, and little teaching experience. But Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.'s credentials were good...
Paradise Preserved. Even the Japanese, apparently, had fallen under the spell of "the land where the angels fly low." Dutch troops came upon two happy veterans of Bali's flourishing prewar artists' colony: Belgian Adrien Jean Le Mayeur, 66, and Swiss Theo Meier, 38. They told no harrowing stories of hunger sieges, frozen feet or welted backs. Painter Le Mayeur had lived through the war in a tile-floored seaside villa overhung with purplish-pink bougainvillea blossoms. His studio was a garden perfumed by the powerful scent of the frangipani tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok...
Cheerful, dark-eyed Theo Meier had rescued his U.S.-made paints when the Japs swarmed in. He retreated with his two Balinese wives to a mountaintop chalet overlooking an amphitheater of verdant, terraced rice fields. When he needed money he sold a friend's watch. Neighbors brought him rice and vegetables, and local rajahs sent him gifts of beef and pork. Unmolested by the Japs, Meier painted 150 canvases. On the side he grew tobacco, which one of his wives rolled into miniature cigars. He also made rice wine and a fiery plum cordial he called "swisky-the drink...