Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning he walked up to a policeman, asked: "How do you get to Bordeaux Jail?" There he picked up his few possessions, said goodbye to friends. He phoned the Protestant jail chaplain, the Rev. Gordon Phillips, who had helped free him, and the kindly chaplain took him to his home...
...priest who had brought Budenz home was Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen. Lean, dark and handsome Father Sheen is associate professor of philosophy at Washington's Catholic University. He is also probably America's best-known priest, with an audience of millions for his Sunday preaching on NBC's Catholic Hour and a fan mail of 3,000 to 6,000 letters a Sunday. Among his other noted proselytes: the late Heywood Broun, politico Horace A. Mann, motor dynast Henry Ford...
...godly, .moral America cannot be maintained if the young womanhood of the nation is to major in liquor and minor in education." The Rev. Dr. William Ward Ayer, pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, said he had discovered that the U.S. has twice as many barmaids* as coeds...
Death Revealed. The Rev. William T. Cummings, 42, famed Army chaplain ("there are no atheists in foxholes") whose calming voice was heard above the bomb bursts in a Bataan hospital, and later by starving men on a Jap prison ship; of starvation and exposure; on shipboard, early this year. One G.I. said: "I remember wondering how a dying man could have such a strong, clear voice...
...church, said the Rev. Mr. Smith, has "sought a solution in law and let Alcoholics Anonymous take over the curing of the alcoholic by religious therapy -which is really the church's business...