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...Washington, before taking command of the nation's first army, prayed in his white pew in Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. Before his decision to take command of the Virginia forces, Robert E. Lee prayed there in 1861. In Alexandria, at daybreak Thursday, the balding, vigorous, 34-year-old rector, the Rev. Edward Randolph Welles, summoned eight young men of the parish, gave them a Secret-Service-combed list of 250 parishioners' names, admission cards...
...Common Prayer ("Almighty God, who has given us this good land for our heritage. . . ."-TIME, Dec. 15). The hymns were militant : God of Our Fathers, Once To Every Man and Nation (James Russell Lowell's great hymn), America and Battle Hymn of the Republic. The sermon was militant: Rector Welles asked God's pardon for past shortcomings, asked power for the task of victory, asked for peace by God's help. He preached the "sin of international irresponsibility": "We have passed by on the other side when we have seen other nations in need or peril...
Buchmanism's recent disastrous decline in both Britain and America was highlighted this month when it lost both its U.S. headquarters and its chief U.S. exponent. Rector Samuel Moor Shoemaker of Manhattan's Calvary Episcopal Church did this double job by ousting the cult from his parish house and declaring that
...Eugene Lyons' The Red Decade for $100,000. Named by red-hating Lyons as a fellow traveler who defended Moscow's mass trials and executions, Lamont protested that Lyons had wrongfully classified him as a "stinker." Lyons retorted with a charge that Lamont, a Civil Liberties di rector, forced giant book-distributor Baker & Taylor to drop the book by threatening suit, a The day that Socialist Norman Thomas made an anti-war talk outside the University of California, his son, Evan, 21, quit Princeton to drive an ambulance for the British in the Near East. ∙∙ John...
Nature and machines are other characters in the larger drama. A wedge of planes blasts to bits the Rector's fuddling interpretation of the show; and butterflies are deluded by bright costumes on the grass: "Red Admirals gluttonously absorbed richness from dish cloths, cabbage whites drank icy coolness from silver paper...