Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frederick D. Tyner is a gaunt, 65-year-old Episcopal rector in Minneapolis who looks like Lord Halifax but has a lot more bounce. He has probably done more than any other man alive to combine the activities of golf and religion; he has built St. Luke's Church up from 30 to 1,000 members while cutting his golf handicap down to 8. His "Good Golfers' Dinners" are famed throughout the Northwest, feature screwball debates on such subjects as "RESOLVED, That all bad putting is due to a bad conscience." Now Pastor Tyner also preaches twice weekly...
Cleared: the Rev. Dr. Henry Darlington, rector of Manhattan's fashionable Church of the Heavenly Rest; of charges that he had exerted "undue influence" on 78-year-old Mrs. Anna H. Paton, who left him 30% of her $1,300,000 (which shrank to about $800,000). Her relatives, who had charged that the pastor had wooed the 230-lb. widow out of the money, said they would appeal...
Classiest contested-will case in a vestryman's age was fought in a White Plains, N.Y. court between the Rev. Dr. Henry Darlington, businesslike, 53-year-old rector of Manhattan's fashionable Church of the Heavenly Rest, and relatives of the late, 78-year-old Mrs. Anna H. Patton, who last year left the minister 30% of her $1,300,000. The relatives charged that Dr. Darlington had made love to the widow for ten years to get the money; Dr. Darlington's attorneys described the relationship as pure mother-&-son. Twenty-eight affectionate letters were introduced...
Died. The Most Rev. Joseph Moran Corrigan, 63, rector of the Catholic University of America; of pneumonia; in Washington. An affable, circular six-footer, he was a popular orator and preacher, an energetic Catholic administrator in Philadelphia for some 30 years. In his six years as rector he brought many new things to Catholic University, including a School of Social Sciences...
Appearing in Walt Disney's short, "The New Spirit," Donald will be preceded on the program by Dr. John T. Dunlop, Faculty instructor in Economics, and Francis B. Sayre, Jr., assistant rector of Christ Church. In addition, a news reel of the raid on Pearl Harbor and a motion picture on "America's Call to Arms" will be shown...