Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rev. G. (for George) Ashton Oldham, Episcopal Bishop of Albany, roundly denied the importance of lipstick and nail polish to keep up U.S. morale. "God help this country," cried he in a Lenten sermon, "if we have to depend on those things for morale." Promptly from Hollywood came red-white-&-blue protests: How would the Bishop of Albany like to give up shaving? "I am willing to stop shaving," he countered, "if they are willing to give up cosmetics." That appeared unlikely...
...Washington and Lee University President Dr. Francis P. Gaines; Virginia's Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America; onetime NBC President Merlin H. Aylesworth; American Legion Auxiliary national President Ruth H. Mathebat; and Mrs. Du Pont. They gave the companion $1,000 award, for the radio station best serving its community and the nation, to General Electric's short-wave station KGEI of San Francisco...
...conditions and especially the rationing of food, the Roman Catholic Church's laws of fast and abstinence have been relaxed in various U.S. dioceses, in some just for Lent, in others for the duration. Said a typical announcement, issued by the Bishop of Albany, N.Y., the Most Rev. Edmund F. Gibson: ". . .Those who avail themselves of this dispensation should be encouraged to perform, especially during Lent, some other voluntary acts of mortification and penance...
Eliot House will present its annual dinner on Friday, March 19, commemorating the one hundred and ninth anniversary of President Eliot. John H. Finley, Master of the House and associate professor of Greek and Latin will preside and Rev. Samuel Eliot will ask the blessing...
Suddenly, however, the contribution of the Rev. Mr. Frederic B. Kellogg, who, appropriately for the baptism, is a minister of Christ Church in Cambridge appeared. Looking not for the subtle nor for the "flashy", he had suggested the "HARVARD SERVICE NEWS...