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...Hundreds were searched and at least one hundred were run in for carrying knives with blades longer than the six-inch maximum allowed by law. Twenty colored kindergartners were lined up, pawed over by the Crump cops. Frisked in front of Atkinson's was Father Bertrand Kock, white pastor of Mrs. Atkinson's church. Police patted his Franciscan robe, made him take off his shoes...
Frank Lloyd Wright's attempt to give the U. S. something new in church architecture last week had proved too revolutionary for Kansas City's public works department. Months ago aging (71), progressive Pastor Burris Jenkins of Kansas City asked Wright to design a new Community Church. Aging (71), progressive Architect Wright responded with what he called "the first completely functional church." Last fortnight Commissioner of Buildings Frank Lloyd (no relation) Lang took a look at the plans, refused to issue a permit because they did not comply with the city's 1927 building code. He demanded...
First warning of trouble came three months ago when the board of trustees suddenly ousted three of their number: Edward G. Budd, famed builder of automobile bodies 'and streamlined trains; Ernest T. Trigg, a conservative paint manufacturer; and Rev. John Archibald MacCallum, a liberal Presbyterian pastor and oldtime friend of Founder Conwell. Soon ex-Trustee MacCallum began to make charges. For no obvious reason, eminent Surgeon W. Wayne Babcock of the medical school jumped into the fray with countercharges. Their cat-&-dog fight was joined by Dean Parkinson, Realtor-Trustee Albert Monroe Greenfield, perennial storm centre of Philadelphia business...
...intention of this black-and-white presentation is oppressively obvious: to arouse us to protect all that the pastor stands for, to destroy the Antichrist Nazis and their depraved doctrines...
...caught up is the picture in its own hysteria, that it overlooks the fact that the pastor never fights. Not once did he even strike a strom trooper. Not once did he exhort his parishioners to do so. He is the "turn-the-other-cheek" type of Christian. Yet Jimmy Roosevelt ('37) tries to transmute this inspiring figure into a little tin Christ. If it weren't so ominous, we could afford to laugh...