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...moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South), has not held a pulpit since 1904 when he became his Church's secretary of Christian Education & Ministerial Relief. On Sundays Moderator Sweets attends Highland Presbyterian Church in Louisville, where he notes that most of the worshippers are oldish, like himself (63). On this subject, which currently depresses many another minister, Dr. Sweets sermonized last week in Second Presbyterian Church, Little Rock...
...grey, watery-eyed. Evangelism on what he calls "the kerosene circuit'' had left its stamp on him. So had heart disease. For his opener in Calvary Baptist Church he drew an oldish crowd of 2,175. His sermon was long, rambling. There were few antics on the platform, fewer "Amens" from the congregation. After wards only six people went forward to shake hands with...
...felt obliged to state that the Vatican had no interest in Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for President. In 1929, the Apostolic Delegate called on President Hoover. Archbishop Fumasoni-Biondi, 60, is tall, pink and scholarly. He lived quietly in Washington, dined out occasionally with oldish men at the more sedate embassies, kept a "blind" telephone number which even Catholic organizations in Washington did not know. He is likely to be appointed prefect of the Holy Congregation of Propaganda, a high position of which the incumbent is called the "Red Pope" because of his world-wide influence in missionary...
...chief cities it visits the big show is preceded by an oldish, gentle-voiced, persuasive man named Dexter Fellows. He will walk into newspaper offices, announce that spring (or summer or autumn) and the circus are coming, then plunge into an alliterative orgy. Reporters (as did Manhattan reporters last fortnight) will write of his arrivals in such terms as these...
Washington & Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.) inaugurated a new president ast week. Year ago the students struck, announced emphatically that they did not like the policies (in regard to campus garb and athletics) of President Simon Strousse Baker (TIME, March 30). Small, oldish President Baker resigned. His successor pleased nearly everyone. Rev. Dr. Ralph Cooper Hutchison is tall, dark, one of the youngest college presidents (34) in the U. S. Born in Colorado, he went to Lafayette College (1918), spent seven months in naval aviation, went to Haryard, Pennsylvania, Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1922. worked for the Presbyterian...