Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: TIME erred in stating only Dr. Peabody remains "of the generation of schoolmasters who built the U.S. private preparatory-school system" [TIME, Feb. 8]. Seventy-nine years old, long good friend and obviously contemporary of Groton's Peabody, Rev. Dom J. Hugh Diman, O.S.B., founded distinguished St. George's School in Newport, R.I. After his conversion, and subsequent ordination as an English Benedictine, he became prior of the Benedictine monastery in Portsmouth, R.I. At that time Father Hugh founded the School of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth Priory School). Portsmouth may become the first Abbey school...
From one of the world's hottest spots, a letter came last week to the Rev. Edward E. Chipman, pastor of Brooklyn's Lefferts Park Baptist Church. Wrote Chaplain W. Wyeth Willard, with the U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal...
...reason Robert Shaw's conducting abilities came as a surprise to high-brow critics is that he grew up on the popular side of the musical tracks. Five years ago he was studying for the ministry at Pomona College, Calif. His father is the Rev. Shirley R. Shaw of the University Christian Church in San Diego. But there was also music in the Shaw family. Robert's mother, Nell Lawson Shaw, was a well-known West Coast church singer. His older sister, Hollace, made a soprano name for herself on the General Electric Hour of Charm radio program...
...Archdiocese, the real work of the Army & Navy Diocese falls on his military delegate, lanky, Spanish-speaking Bishop John F. O'Hara, onetime president of Notre Dame. And Bishop O'Hara is so busy that last week the Pope gave him an assistant. He is the Most Rev. William T. McCarty, 53, of Brooklyn, who has inaugurated 14 Redemptorist* foundations in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Brazil. Biggest new job of Pennsylvania-born Bishop-Designate McCarty will be to help eliminate a serious shortage of Catholic chaplains...
Into the Navy as a chaplain went the balding, slim Rev. Frank Ray Wilson, 48, rector of St. James Episcopal Church at Hyde Park, after first getting the permission of his senior warden, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The senior warden, now administrative head of the church till a new rector is chosen, wrote: "In your place I would do the same thing myself...