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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...
...Before this district raises funds for the support of an episcopal establishment," he said, "it should pay a living wage to the clergy already giving their lives to its service." Rector Patton thought that the best thing to do was to absorb San Joaquin once more into the other Episcopal dioceses in California...
...know or recognize truth for truth's sake or science for science's sake." The author of this statement, Dr. Ernst Krieck, is rector of Heidelberg. Between 1933-38 university enrollment dropped from 200,000 to just over 70,000. A worried military gazette reported: "Cadets show a striking inability to think logically...