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...Union Theological Seminary) was near a Bronx fish market; in time, "the odor of sanctity overcame the odor of fish." Later, he moved to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. When he found that the church maintained a chapel for poorer parishioners who could not afford to rent pews in the church proper, Dr. Coffin closed the chapel, abolished the pew rents and merged the two congregations. He often took a portable organ to tenement districts to hold services for workers who came home at 2 a.m. "You do not go into religion head first," he once said. "You must...
...Beaverbrook Foundation. Said the London Daily Mirror's William ("Cassandra") Connor: "Fleet Street was not taken in by Lord Beaverbrook's grave-faced, solemn announcement . . . Lord Beaverbrook is a practiced performer of the last and final farewell . . . There is nothing more joyful than lying concealed underneath the pew at your own funeral service-safe in the knowledge that the coffin lid can be easily unscrewed from below and that willing and faithful hands will be at the cemetery at midnight to welcome back the jaunty corpse...
...first school superintendent, a county judge, the founder of the Farmer's National Bank, and the owner of vast coal and timber land. True to his surname, he was also in the cooperage business, making staves for whisky kegs. Every Sunday he sat alone in his rear pew in the First Baptist Church (Mrs. Cooper always sat across the aisle with the ladies...
...ushers in Memphis, Tenn. that "ushers can louse up the service or make it more worshipful." No good usher, said Hosman, uses strong after-shave lotion, wets his thumb when handing out bulletins, or grasps a lady around the waist or by the arm in showing her to her pew. Expert Hosman's advice on how to get people to sit up front: don't give out the bulletin right away, but use it as "bait" to lure back-pew addicts down the aisle. Added Hosman: "Ushering is not a job for women." Reasons: their high heels slow...
Back for Seconds. Thanksgiving morning Ike, Mamie and Barbara went to church. Because the Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church had been torn down to be built anew, services were held in the Sunday-school auditorium. But the church fathers had carefully placed the President's pew in its usual spot (seventh on the right). The nation's first family joined in singing Come, Ye Thankful People, Come and We Gather Together...