Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's favorite tabloid characters got married last week. The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 36, wing-collared pastor of Harlem's big Abyssinian Baptist Church and New York's first Negro Congressman, took as a wife (his second) round-eyed, plump Hazel Scott, 25, Bach-to-boogie pianist. Their wedding should have been a tabloid editor's dream - a cast of stars, and a comedy of errors...
...with the charm and looks to meet the right people, lately special assistant to U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant; and R.A.F. Flight Lieut. Aidan Crawley, 37, athletic Oxfordian who was elected to Britain's new Labor Parliament, son of the Rev. Canon A. S. Crawley, chaplain to King George VI; both for the first time; in London...
...first U.S. Army chaplain, appointed under an act of Congress in 1791, was General Washington's good friend the Rev. John Hurt of Virginia, "a fearless man and an ardent patriot." By an act of the Continental Congress in 1775, to which the Army Chaplains' Corps now traces its origin, he had served as a chaplain throughout the Revolution...
Hell's Fire. In Miles City, Mont., the Rev. John B. Fitz paused in the midst of his outdoor sermon, picked up a gun, shot two rattlesnakes that happened by, went on preaching...
Coming & Going. In Magoffin County, Ky., primary candidates for County Judge included Attorney Brack Howard (Rep.) and the Rev. Brack Howard...