Word: rectorate
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...football and track star in high school, an All-American swimmer at Brown University. Now 33, and the father of two small boys, he was rector of St. John's Episcopal Church at Lowell, Mass, when he decided to join the Army. When first he went to Benning, he was lucky to get a dozen men for Sunday service. Now he draws...
...presidency of the Oxford Union (traditional steppingstone for British statesmen but a post also held by Dr. Lang, Temple's predecessor at Canterbury, and Dr. Garbett, his successor at York), he was in quick succession an Oxford don (philosophy) at 23, a headmaster (of Repton) at 28, rector of London's fashionable St. James's Church, Piccadilly and chaplain to the King, a bishop at 39, an archbishop...
...better use this rector of yours while you can. You will not be able to keep him. He is one of the ablest young men in our church, and the whole church needs him more than this on parish...
...prophesied great expectations for Dr. De Wolfe was Dr. Frederic Sydney Fleming, rector of Manhattan's fabulously wealthy Trinity Church. He knew that between 1922 and 1934 the younger man had built up the congregation of St. Andrew's Church in Kansas City from 90 to 1,100 members, that since 1934 his Christ Church, Houston, had had just about the most meteoric rise in all the South. In 1940 Dr. Fleming asked Dr. De Wolfe to preach at Trinity's Lenten services. Bishop William T. Manning of New York came to hear him, promptly invited...
...start of World War II, fat, frisky young King Farouk I of Egypt suffered from nightmares in which he was chased by an angry lion. Haggard from loss of sleep, Farouk sought counsel of crabbed, pro-Axis Sheik Mustafa El-Maraghi, rector of the ancient Moslem University of El-Azhar. "You will not rest until you have shot a lion," said El-Maraghi. Thereupon the king went to the zoo and shot two lions in their cage. The nightmares continued. "Young fool," said El-Maraghi, "I spoke in symbols-the lion that has been chasing you is Britain...