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...Guard or New? But a great deal more was involved. The Republican Party must now make up its mind to represent either its old bosses -the Hoover, Martin, Pew, Grundy, Landon crowd, or its new bosses, the people who believe in Wendell Willkie's leadership...
Church. In 1775 George Washington, before taking command of the nation's first army, prayed in his white pew in Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. Before his decision to take command of the Virginia forces, Robert E. Lee prayed there in 1861. In Alexandria, at daybreak Thursday, the balding, vigorous, 34-year-old rector, the Rev. Edward Randolph Welles, summoned eight young men of the parish, gave them a Secret-Service-combed list of 250 parishioners' names, admission cards...
There was a pause. Then Winston Churchill shuffled up the aisle to join the President in Pew 59, George Washington's square, hard-cushioned bench...
...Barth is a theologian's theologian. Known to few men in the pew, he nevertheless profoundly affects them at third hand-for the theologians whom he influences influence the preachers of the Christian world. Nazis ousted him from his chair at Bonn in 1935 for his resistance to Hitler, and now he teaches in his native Basle. Last week the first copy of his latest book, A Letter to Great Britain from Switzerland, was Clippered to TIME. Its influence will be enormous-and more immediate than usual. Wrote Dr. Barth...
...interlards these with sizzling passages like this one from The Stars Look Down: "Linked together, they moved to the foremost pew, cushioned and wide as any bed . . . her lips were moist with desire. The rain drummed upon the roof and the darkness of the church reddened and enclosed them. When it came, her cry of physical exaltation rose before the altar...