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...days later, however, ''Eminent Citizen" Rafael Franco, who seized the Presidency also by a bloodless coup in 1936, found himself somewhat less eminent, was "asked" to resign, because he refused to form a Cabinet amenable to the military. Law Professor Félix Paiva, Dean and Rector of the University of Asunción, Vice President in 1920, was named Provisional President...
Testament into journalese. There the peppery, dogmatic rector of old Christ Church, 77-year-old Rev. Louis Cope Washburn, preached his retiring sermon last January with a bandage about his head, result of an encounter in which he bested a footpad with his umbrella. Episcopal Rev. Dr. David McConnell Steele believes that Lent is a bore (TIME, March 30, 1936), Rev. "Jack" Hart this summer founded the Episcopal Anti-Mothball Society (TIME, July 12), "Rev." Mary Hubbert Ellis scuttles about looking for nude statues to cover up, and Rev. Dr. George Chalmers Richmond broods in a Philadelphia suburb over...
...University of Pennsylvania, become an Episcopal minister. A radical, David Colony was assigned to teach Latin at swank Episcopal Academy and assist in a church at Rosemont, both on the Main Line and both cool to his notions. Transferred to more congenial, lower-class parishes in Philadelphia suburbs. Rector Colony established a barter system for the unemployed, a "school of the poor for the poor" which was to be supported by penny contributions. In 1934 and 1935 he wrote articles for Harper's and Scribner's, respectively, comparing the U. S. Episcopal clergy with that...
Last week in Minister Colony's present church in suburban Kensington, a choir boy named Willard Noble, just turning 21, stood before his rector and recited a lengthy oath, core of which was: "I believe that every Communist and Fascist in America is a traitor to the United States of America. This is my pledge as an American and a Christian: to fight Communism and Fascism wherever I find them; to enlist others in the fight. . . ." Explained David Colony, who said he had thought up the oath after attending a Nazi meeting: "I wish to see every boy passing...
Died. Harold Francis Davidson, 65, "The Lustful Rector of Stiffkey" (pronounced Stewkey); after being attacked by a lion; at Thompson's Amusement Park, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. Since his unfrocking for unministerial relations with prostitutes, Mr. Davidson had kept in the limelight by appearing at a suburban movie house, exhibiting himself in a barrel, being ejected from a nudist camp. His last exploit, lion-taming, ended when during the course of his act he accidentally trod on the toe of a lioness whose mate leaped at him, mortally mauled him before his 16-year-old girl assistant could come...