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...religious agencies which do. Among them: Commission on Aliens & Prisoners of War, Committee on the Conscientious Objector, Committee on Overseas Relief & Reconstruction. Member groups are assessed not according to size but to income. Thus the Protestant Episcopal Church chips in a good deal more per person than the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church...
...Author. Nicodemus is Author Walworth's fourth novel (the others: Faith of Our Fathers; They Thought They Could Buy It; Feast of Reason). Daughter of a Methodist minister, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Merle Crowell, Novelist Walworth lives in a remodeled farmhouse in Chappaqua, N.Y. Says her friend, Writer Grace Perkins, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Fulton Oursler: "She's small, she's trig, and if she isn't younger than her married daughter, her heart doesn't know it. Her spiritual essence is a faith that permeates everything she does...
...moved to send a congratulatory wire to a couple of radio comics who had involved him in the plot of a script: so George Burns & Gracie Allen had the Presidential endorsement: "We all enjoyed the show immensely. . . ." Bess Truman and Daughter Margaret won applause from the Chenango Street Methodist Church of Binghamton, N.Y., which paid happy tribute to "the courage that you . . . showed [at a Manhattan banquet] when you ordered orange juice instead of cocktails...
...Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York, liberal, plain-spoken president of the U.S. Federal Council of Churches...
...Said New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "It will be widely read and will re-emphasize the place of the Bible in everyday life...