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...when the privilege (known as "advowson") came to be attached to the estate of the lord of the manor, who can bequeath the privilege or sell it. Thus a priest in search of a parish is never sure to what kind of patron he must sell himself. In Acle, Norfolk, for example, it is Brigadier Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe; in Parracombe, Devon it is the Misses Nind; Colonel Pine-Coffin picks the parson for St. Andrews Alwington, Devon; and Mrs. Power Clutterbuck holds sway in Ozleworth, Wotton-under-Edge. "The clergy," says the Rev. Lewis Roberts of Peasmarsh, "is the only...
...recent election, David B. Melchinger '62, of Quincy House and Glen Ridge, N.J., was chosen president of the Crimson Key Society, and Arthur H. Stein '62, of Dunster House and Norfolk, Va., was named vice-president...
...Virginian myself, whose mother came from a long line of Virginians and whose mother and father were married in the present City of Norfolk, I accept as a great honor the invitation of the city to place my papers, decorations and other mementos of my military service in its perpetual care and keeping." Thus last week did General of the Army Douglas MacArthur notify the birthplace of his mother that he was consigning his vast memorabilia to its custody; he also requested that he and his wife be buried in Norfolk. The city has big plans for MacArthur. It will...
...nine Houses to serve with previously elected Class Marshals on the Class Committee. Those selected were Roger A. Snyder, of Adams and Upper Derby, Pa.; John T. Daley, of Dudley and West Roxbury; Richard K. Ellingboe, of Dunster and Wilmington, Del.; Douglas E. Buie, of Kirkland and Norfolk, Va.; Christopher Gale, of Eliot and Webster Groves, Mo.; Larry J. Hohit, of Leverett and Greenwood, Ind.; Thomas H. Moss, of Lowell and Cleveland, Ohio; Claude E. Welch of Quincy and Belmont; and Eliot T. Putnam, Jr., of Winthrop and Dedham...
...Norfolk & Western Railway, which reaches from Norfolkthrough the West Virginia coal fields up to southern Ohio is one of the nations best-run railroads. A ride over its main line, says the Handbook of American Railroads, instills "a sense that everything is in 'apple-pie order' and as it should be. "The road is also growth-minded; last year the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a merger between the N. & W. and the Virginian, the first merger of two independently owned railroads in this century. Last week the road's go-ahead President Stuart T. Saunders announced...