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Poet Edgar Albert ("Eddie") Guest, Helen Keller, Mrs. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, Boston's onetime Mayor Malcolm Nichols, Glass Manufacturer Raymond Pitcairn, the family of Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, the shades of the elder Henry James, the late Financial Publisher Clarence W. Barren all hold one thing in common - a belief in the theological doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg. They find solace in the Swedenborgian service, which resembles the Anglican, in the Swedenborgian belief in immediate judgment after death, and they experience exhilaration in contact with one of the most versatile scientific minds the world ever knew. Last...
...Jerusalem held a dinner in the assembly hall of their slowly-building cathedral. These Swedenborgians have a bishop-George de Charms-whereas the main body of U. S. believers, from which they split in 1890, maintains a congregational form of government. Most notable of the schismatics is Raymond Pitcairn, who has made their fane the closest thing to a family cathedral in the world today. He donated much of the $14,000,000 it has cost; he dismissed its architects some years ago, has since supervised the unhurried firing of its glass, forging of its metals, hewing of its timbers...
Married. Mrs. Edna Christian, 43, widowed mother of Charles J. B. Christian, 6, who is a great-great-grandson of Fletcher Christian, leader of H.M.S. Bounty's mutiny; to David Young, head of the present settlement of 204 persons on Pitcairn Island, where the eight rebellious English sailors, 18 Polynesian men & women landed in 1790; on Pitcairn...
...first one to do so. My flight started at Willow Grove, a suburb of Philadelphia, on May 14, 1931 and ended at San Diego (North Island Naval Air Station) on May 28, 1931, after a leisurely flight stopping at several cities for demonstrations, etc. My autogiro (a Pitcairn 330 h. p. model) was the first ever seen west of the Mississippi River...
Heading the list of speakers at the three-day meeting, March 8-10, was Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, Associate Curator of Physical Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Dr. Shapiro is the first man to make a scientific study of the famous Pitcairn Island group, descendants of the mutineers of the "Bounty" and their Tahitian wives, whose marriages have provided modern science with a classic example of racial mixture...