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...last summer founded an Anti-Mothball Society (TIME, July 12, 1937). Its motto: DON'T SLOW UP. Unlike many another church promotion scheme, which quietly expires after getting some publicity, the Anti-Mothball Society last week had by no means slowed up. Energetic, curly-haired Jack Hart, associate rector of midtown St. Stephen's Church, longtime unofficial chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania, since last November the active rector of Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge, expanded the activities of his Anti-Mothballers this summer. He divided them into two groups, one consisting of Philadelphia stay-at-homes...
When the late Dr. Samuel Smith Drury was Rector of St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.), he was offered two other jobs: the Episcopal coadjutor-bishopric of Pennsylvania, the rectorship of Manhattan's Trinity Church ("one of the most enviable jobs in or beyond the Episcopal Church" which has often proved a stepping-stone to the top-ranking bishopric of New York). St. Paul's is the oldest and biggest of the haughty Episcopal preparatory schools, and its headmastership always ranked high, but Dr. Drury's nolo episcopari enormously increased the prestige...
...clock one morning last week several hundred young men filed silently into the university buildings, barricaded doors and corridors. By daybreak enraged Rightist students found their university had been taken over by the United Socialist Youth of Mexico. When Rector Chico Goerne arrived in his office, the Socialists marched him out again. The Rightists charged at the doors, clambered up walls, were driven back by revolver shots. The Leftists held the buildings all day. One student lay dead and five injured when Government police finally smashed in, arrested or dispersed the Socialists, recaptured the university for the Government...
...magazines: Esquire, Ballyhoo, Film Fun, Peek, See, Sex Guide, Sheer Folly and 97 others; in Denver, Colo. The agency: a committee headed by Right Reverend Hugh L. McMenamin, rector of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. Reason: pictures and advertisements "suggestive of sex." Authority: Colorado law forbids distribution of obscene literature, provides for mandatory fines and jail sentences for violators. Fortnight ago. Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton of Denver appointed the McMenamin committee, instructed his police to enforce any bans it might make. If magazine distributors object to police action, they can sue the police in court...
Porter Cole -- Miss Jackie Rector, Smith College...