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...Pulitzer-prize poem filled an hour and a half over the BBC, but it was worth it. Britons heard an eloquent adaptation by an American: Joel O'Brien, former assistant to Norman Corwin. In the background was a remarkable musical score by 24-year-old British Composer Arthur Oldham. Even his original Negro spirituals, set to Benét's words and inspired by listening to Hall Johnson records, sounded authentic. To Britons it all was more than a broadcast; it was a lesson in U.S. history...
Last week, he finally took a decisive step to better himself. He did not quite manage the farm in Essex, but he became the licensee of a pub in Oldham, Lancashire. "Yungg Alber" was a man of feeling; like his uncle, he always took pride in making his victim's grim death throes as light and brief as possible. His new pub had an appropriate name. It was called: "Help the Poor Struggler...
...Episcopal Bishop G. Ashton Oldham of Albany, N.Y., longtime internationalist, who in 1940 damned neutrality as an "abhorrent thing...
...Massachusetts' handsome Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill (just back from visiting U.S. military posts in the Aleutians) seemed a little worried. He feared that Presbyterians might think they heard the loud slamming of a door. He hoped that Bishop Oldham's resolution meant that Episcopalians "feel there are some prospects of such unity." Bishop Manning agreed. When the votes were counted Bishop Manning had won. Unity was as far away as ever. Said one Bishop to another in a stage whisper: "I hope we don't look too much like the cat that swallowed the canary...
Very different was the mood of the predominantly Low-Church House of Deputies (clerical and lay delegates), which met separately. Said one delegate: "Manning has his dander up and he has the Bishops cowed." There was talk of sending the Oldham resolution back to the Bishops, telling them to face the unity problem. But nothing happened. Chief reason: no Episcopalian wants a knockdown fight between Low-and High-Churchmen which would give the Church a bad press...