Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Group headquarters is maintained at Manhattan's Calvary Episcopal Church (cable address: Apostolic). Not a few U. S. socialites have rallied to the faith of God the Millionaire to make the pleasurable discovery that if their servants were "changed," too, they became much more pleasant and effective. Nevertheless. Pennsylvania's Frank Buchman and his doctrine of Absolute Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness & Love seem to be more at home abroad...
...members could try to prevent him from operating his Philadelphia prepaid medical service by having him cited as an unlicensed operator of an insurance scheme. Dr. Saul retaliated by having his two brothers, both potent Philadelphia lawyers, tweak the A. M. A. nose where it stuck into Pennsylvania business...
Frank Buchman was born 58 years ago in Pennsburg of a Pennsylvania Dutch stilling family. He went to Muhlenberg College, Mt. Airy Theological Seminary, became a Lutheran pastor. Doing welfare work for Lutheran boys at Overbrook, Pa., he quarreled with trustees of his hospice, went to England with a bitter heart. In 1908 in a rural English chuch he says he had a stirring, heart-warming religious experience which set his life on a new course, revealed new spiritual powers to him. These new powers, enabling him to "probe souls" and "cleanse" by extracting confessions, earned him a shower undesirable...
There followed shortly the two great blows of David Blythe's life. Pretty Julia Keffer died a year after he married her. He painted an enormous panorama of western Pennsylvania landscapes and historical scenes, mounted it on rollers and dreamed of making a fortune by taking it on tour. In its premiere at Uniontown, Pa. the last scene, a realistic canvas of a thunderstorm, so scared the more naive spectators that they refused to leave the theatre until assured that no thunder was crashing outside. But the tour flopped, the panorama was cut up to make theatrical backdrops. Painter...
David Blythe was a Pittsburgh legend for years after his death, but hardly anyone outside western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio had heard of him until Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute exhumed some of his paintings from the countryside's parlors, gave them a showing in 1932. Last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art rounded up all the Blythe pictures it could get, put them on exhibition beside the works of another, long-forgotten Pennsylvanian, Joseph Boggs ("The Professor") Beale, whose lively drawings were lately discovered in the attic of a onetime Philadelphia lantern-slide maker (TIME...