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...There have been nine Episcopalian Presidents: Washington, Madison, Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Pierce, Arthur and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The other 22 Presidents have included five Presbyterians, four Methodists, four Unitarians, two Reformed Dutch, one Quaker, Baptist, Congregationalist, Disciple of Christ. Jefferson, Lincoln and Hayes were not church members...
...first Quaker work camp was established by the Service Committee's Clarence E. Pickett and Homer L. Morris in 1934, at Westmoreland, Pa., to give that year's unemployed college students something to do. Since then the idea has been picked up by many schools and other groups. Combining some features of summer camp, settlement house, college and the CCC, work camps teach neighborliness, public service, respect for manual labor, self-government...
...Quakers alone now have 13 work camps in the U.S., three in Mexico, one in Puerto Rico. Colleges from Pennsylvania's Swarthmore to Kansas' Wichita give credits for theses based on camp projects, hashed out in camp seminars staffed with college teachers. The eight-week sessions cost the student $100 (but scholarships are available). Their Quaker sponsors expect to find plenty of work in postwar Europe for work-camp alumni...
...With the Wind. The Wind blew for four solid hours; Went goes on for ten minutes short of three. The Wind cost $4,000,000 to make; Went, a mere $2,400,000. The Wind was photographed in some of the most florid Technicolor ever seen; Went is in Quaker black & white and Hollywood's pearliest mezzotones. The Wind was perhaps the greatest entertainment natural in screen history; Went, though its appeal is likely to be broad, is essentially a "woman's picture." But it is obviously, in every foot, the work of one of Hollywood...
Primitive's Eye. Born into a Philadelphia family of Quaker tinge (though he himself was agnostic), Thomas Eakins lived his whole life at 1729 Mt. Vernon St. By the time he left high school, Eakins was already a master of perspective...