Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raleigh, N.C., 13 Episcopal bishops laid their hands on the head of 30-year-old Rev. William Jones Gordon Jr. When the hands were lifted, William Gordon was not only bishop of Alaska's missionary district but the youngest Episcopal bishop ever consecrated. Said he afterward: "I was trudging along in the snow last year, behind a dog team, when I hear this Indian yelling to me he's got a message. It was from the House of Bishops. I read it and just about fainted...
...Angeles, the Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan said he had not realized that he had violated Presbyterian constitutional law by officiating at the fourth marriage of Cinemactress Lana Turner and Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. He had been much impressed, he said, by Miss Turner's "sincerity and the depth of feeling in her . . . There is a spiritual quality in that woman ... I became convinced that they . . . wanted to break with the past and put their marriage on a Christian basis." Since Minister Mac-Lennan admits violating the rules, a presbytery judicial commission will not have...
...went a letter to Colorado, addressed to the Times correspondent who wrote the story. Wrote the Rev. William T. Greene, moderator of St. Pat's choir: "You may be interested in knowing that at no time in the future will the Mass of Roy Harris be performed in St. Patrick's." Added Father Greene: the implication that the Mass was written for cash was "not only untrue, but most distasteful...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward Joseph Flanagan, 61, bluntspoken, kindly director of Boys Town, Neb.; in Berlin, Germany, where he had gone to advise the U.S. Army on youth problems. Irish-born Father Flanagan founded Boys Town in 1921 as a nonsectarian home for delinquents and orphans (his creed: "There is no such thing...
...Atlanta, Ga., Dr. Sam F. Lowe, director of the Baptist (radio) Hour announced results of a favorite-hymn poll conducted in Southern Baptist territory. Winner of this Baptist Hit Parade was the Rev. George Bennard's lachrymose Old Rugged Cross. Runners-up: In the Garden, Amazing Grace. In last place (13th) stood Rock of Ages...