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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, stooping Rt. Rev. William Marshall Selwyn is only worried about one thing: carfare. To visit the 80 chaplains in his far-flung see will take him at least two years of diligent travel. His Church of England stipend of $5,000 a year does not allow for much travel after living expenses have been paid. Even though he has a small private income, Bishop Selwyn hopes his episcopal gaiters will help him hitch many a plane or car ride. He plans to take his wife "only when I can afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop on the Move | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...past 21 years Fulham's bishop has been big, hearty Rt. Rev. Basil Batty, who found the job "hard work, but very pleasant." Lately, however, the going has been tough. In a plane from Moscow recently he found the stratosphere too much for his 74 years and resigned in favor of 67-year-old Youngster Selwyn, an ex-chaplain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop on the Move | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Died. The Right Rev. James De Wolf Perry, 75, onetime (1930-37) Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America,* for 35 years the Bishop of Rhode Island; of a heart ailment; in Summerville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 31, 1947 | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...Rubaiyat caught on quickly. But its translator still remained unknown. Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton, who introduced this Rubaiyat to the U.S., showed it to crusty Historian Thomas Carlyle, remarking that it was rumored to be the work of a "Rev. Edward FitzGerald, who lived somewhere in Norfolk and spent much time in his boat." Cried Carlyle: "Why, he's no more Reverend than I am! He's a very old friend of mine . . . and [he] might have spent his time to much better purpose than in busying himself with the verses of that old Mohammedan blackguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Translator of the Rubaiyat | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...University Ministry to Students BAPTIST: Rev. Prentiss L. Pemberton; CONGREGATIONAL: Rev. Leonard G. Clough; EPISCOPAL: Rev. Frederic B. Kellogg, Rev. John. W. Ellison; FRIENDS: Mr. George A. Selleck; JEWISH: Rabbi Harry Essrig; LUTHERAN: Rev. Edmund A. Steinile; METHODIST: Rev. Earle H. Furgeson, Rev. George T. Kennedy; PRESBYTERIAN: Rev. Cecil H. Rose, Rev. Alison R. Bryan; UNITARIAN: Rev. Robert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

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