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The Philadelphians who run and control Sun Oil are the Pews (not to be confused with Philadelphia's Pughs). Joseph Newton Pew founded the business in 1886, 27 years after the famed Titusville gusher came in, by buying natural gas properties. In 1894 the company purchased a refinery at...
The pews, of pine, are painted white and the windows are of plain glass, in keeping with the Colonial architecture. The pulpit, dedicated to the memory of Phillips Brooks '55, and the crest-adorned wooden screen behind it, which separates the nave from the choir, are of oak. It is...
One spring night in 1878, the Captain of the "Pinafore" trod his first deck, and the eternal Victorian verities of "yea" and "nay" crumbled at the Captain's "Well, hardly ever." In a year's time, more than a hundred Captain Corcorans were cavorting nightly on as many stages in...
"The world . . . is tired of harangues on subjects that it knows all about, therefore your pews are empty. . . . When you tell about Jesus and His love, a dying world will listen."
Panting like grampuses, mopping their red faces, Sir Colin & posse then went back to their pews. Mr. Speaker reap- peared from his chambers. The House received him standing. He resumed the chair.