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...Being Tory property, the church was used as a barracks by the provincial troops during the seige of Boston and the lead pipes of the organ were melted into pullets. When Washington took command of the Continental Army, the church was restored as a house of worship. The pew used by Washington has remained undisturbed...
...plain man-in-the-pew nor even for the average preacher-in-the-pulpit are Bishop Barnes' thoroughgoing expositions of matter, space, spacetime, relativity, electricity, heat & light, the quantum theory and Rontgen rays, the solar system, galactic universe and nebulae, evolution and man's origin. As Dr. Barnes points out: "The intellectual gulf between the leaders of science and the educated citizen is dangerously wide." Yet in his lectures there are numerous stout little bridges...
Married. Nona McAcloo Martin, 19, granddaughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; and Mahlon Kline Jordan, 21, Philadelphia socialite; in Whitemarsh. Pa. Senator McAdoo flew from Washington to give the bride away, arrived 15 minutes late, had to sit in a rear pew while the bride's stepfather, Clayton Platt Jr.. substituted...
...floor of the Ayer building, the 1,386 sheets were spread over 5,000 square feet of space. Three judges-Editor Fred Fuller Shedd of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher tradepaper, Fred W. Kennedy, journalism director at University of Washington-walked gravely up & down the rows, dropping ballots upon sheets which caught their favor for excellence of typography, make-up and presswork. Last week the "sweepstakes" winner was announced: the New York Times. Prize: a silver cup bearing the name of Francis Wayland Ayer, late founder of the agency. Honors also were awarded...
...Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody who had married him to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. From his heart, from the hearts of his little band of worshippers, from the heart of a stricken nation rose a wordless appeal for divine strength to right great ills. . . . The President-elect stood up in his pew, squared back his shoulders. As he walked out of St. John's, a brief streak of sunlight shot down upon him through grey wintry clouds...