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...magazine is put together in Richmond by a staff of ten laymen. They get most of their news from ten special correspondents and from contributors in every diocese. The editors, who hold their weekly staff conference over long-distance telephone, are three clergymen: W. Leigh Ribble, a Richmond rector and former editor of the Southern Churchman, Chad Walsh, associate professor of English at Wisconsin's Beloit College, Theodore Wedel, warden of Washington Cathedral's College of Preachers...
...belongs to Manhattan's Trinity Church. This onetime landmark on the New York skyline, which now nestles prim and diminutive between office buildings at the head of Wall Street, owns five chapels and an estimated $35 million worth of city real estate. This week Trinity inducted its 13th rector-redheaded Dr. John Heuss Jr., 43, present director of the Episcopal Church's national department of Christian education...
Trinity has been on the lookout for a new rector since June, when the Rev. Frederic S. Fleming, 65, announced his retirement after serving the 254-year-old parish since 1932. Trinity is traditionally a steppingstone to the bishopric of New York, the church's richest diocese. High Churchman Heuss, who built up his department of Christian education from a staff of two to a staff of 50 in four years, has already been mentioned as a possible second Suffragan Bishop of New York...
...second of his three wives, Russell launched one of England's first (and fiercest) progressive schools. Its motto might have been: "Education without representation is tyranny." The children frolicked about in the nude, attended classes voluntarily, once voted to abolish bedtime. According to one story, the local rector knocked on the school door one day, and when he was greeted by a stark-naked nine-year-old girl, spluttered, "Good God!" Retorted the child, as she slammed the door: "There...
...most recent nominated "a once stalwart gent known as Dollar Bill" to be runner-up to the Man of the Year. Another of his letters, suggesting that a local Airedale was "a perfect Hollywood glamour girl," brought "comments by the dozens and dozens," he told us. "The rector called me on the phone to give his blessing; a man stopped me on the trolley to say how much he liked the . . . letter, and a friend told me she enjoys reading 'my stuff in TIME...