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...happy with the Democratic Digest [Oct. 24]. While unhappily there are more Democrats than Republicans, it would also seem reasonable that TIME might slant its views a little to the party having the greater number of constituents who are able to read. As the old story goes, the Arkansas patriarch stated he was proud of all his nine boys except one, and he turned out to be a Republican-funny thing about him though, he was the only one who went off and learned how to read...
...sweet for Kentucky Democrats, it was sprinkled with some bitterness. The party had come through a shattering primary campaign in which Chandler took on and whipped Judge Bert Combs, who had the support of the Democratic state machine and of Governor Lawrence Wetherby. U.S. Senator Earle Clements and Patriarch Alben Barkley. Although after the primary, Wetherby. Clements and Barkley faithfully swung in behind Nominee Chandler, the unkind cuts are not healed. Now that he has won. Chandler is expected to get right to work on his primary-announced aim to select a candidate who will beat Clements in next year...
...Christ in the U.S.A. approved an exchange visit of church leaders between Russia and the U.S. in the indefinite future. The proposal, said Council President Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern), came originally from the Russians. After communicating with Patriarch Alexei of Moscow and the U.S. State Department, Dr. Blake said, he expects a Russian delegation of Baptists, Lutherans and other Protestants, as well as representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church...
...speaking minority. The rioters shattered shop windows, tore down steel shutters, littered the pavement with heaps of merchandise, and beat up policemen who tried to restrain them. Shouting "Cyprus is Turkish," rioters set fire to buildings and Greek Orthodox churches, while others seized a Cadillac belonging to Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras (a gift from Cinemogul Spyros Skouras) and shoved it into the Golden Horn's muddy waters...
...Aoki still bears the dreadful marks of leprosy, but the disease seems to have been arrested. In Airaku-en's chapel he leads hymn singing and teaches Sunday school each week. He watches over Airaku-en like a patriarch, continues to convert its inhabitants to Christianity. Last week he asked the Episcopal Church on behalf of Airaku-en's Christians to establish a worldwide mission to victims of leprosy. By the standards he has set for himself, Aoki regards his life as a heartening success. His proof: although less than 1% of Okinawans are Christian, 34% of Airaku...